Parents demand primary school takes action after student killed by car

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Days after five-year-old Isla Metcalfe was killed by a car outside her primary school in Sydney's northwest. Anxious parents are demanding the school take action to guarantee their children's safety. Some parents say their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

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00:01Parents say this driveway at Rouse Hill Public School clearly remains a hazard.

00:07That near miss happened just a day after Isla Metcalfe was struck by a car there and later died.

00:14One father has felt compelled to man the gate himself.

00:19That's just something that needs to be done. That's it. And they didn't do it for two days.

00:25I demanded a plan of action and I have yet to see or receive anything from this school in terms of what we're going to be doing differently.

00:36Miss Garcia Todd says she tried to raise these concerns with the principal and other staff after the incident, but says she was dismissed.

00:45I get scoffed at. I get exasperated looks like I'm the one who's being outrageous for demanding a plan of action

00:54for demanding that something change for wanting transparency.

01:02The principal came out to man the gate shortly after our cameras arrived.

01:07I've given you my answer. Thank you. Refer your inquiries to the media unit.

01:11Which we're going to do.

01:12The education department says the school has been proactively working with the local council for a number of years

01:18to minimize traffic hazards around the school. Shane Stanley's daughter was Isla's classmate.

01:25Like the Todd's, he feels they've been left in the dark.

01:28There have been a couple of emails that have come out to the parents of students that attend school here.

01:34Not detailed. There was no nuance. There was no here's what happened and here's what we're going to do about it.

01:40More than $80,000 have been raised so far to help Ilsa's single mother with her funeral arrangements.

01:47END

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