Ms Eileen Curtis:

If one projects that over the years ahead it would reduce the number to approximately 74 in 2021. That would be assuming an enrolment of 12 students each year. Obviously, the allocation of teachers to a school is determined by the numbers, as was pointed out earlier.

That would mean we would have to look at restricting the curriculum in the school in terms of being able to provide the number of teachers to cover that. Also then, there would be the learning experience for the young people. We would contend that a group of 20 students, or anything smaller than that, is what is required to give the best learning experience to the young people concerned.