新金山中文学校校长信箱（15/04/2021）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message
第二学期开学通知
各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！我们学校本周末（4月17日/18日）开学了。这次是因为今年第一学期里（2月中旬）我们维多利亚州由于疫情紧急封城停课一次而补上的一个教学日。
这封信是专门写给在新金山Mt Waverley总校任教和上学的老师、同学和家长的。在欢迎大家重返校园的同时，我要跟大家谈一个很重要也是每次写信都不得不要讲的我们总校的交通管理问题。
由于广大学生和家长们对我们新金山中文学校的认可，尤其是对我们Mt Waverley总校的偏爱，有不少家长每次来回上百公里甚至200多公里来到总校，周六周日总校学生有好几千了。虽然我们总校所有教职员工感谢大家的信任，也都尽心尽职努力教好每一位学生，但是总校的学生人数增多就不可避免会出现上下课家长接送期间校园附近的交通严重堵塞的状况，而万一那时出现紧急情况连救护车、消防车都无法通过。因而总校附近的居民多次向Mt Waverley中学、Monash市政府和州政府相关部门提出投诉（我知道有家长也对不遵守交通规则的行为做了投诉）。
任何一所社区语言学校的成功，离不开老师、学生和家长，也离不开日校、政府和社区（包括学校周围居民）的支持。在过去的几个月里，我跟总校附近的居民、日校校长等反复讨论了寻找解决问题的方法，其中最有效的做法是我们几年前增派员工和家长志愿者在校区附近各个路口做交通疏导，邻居们很欢迎。但是市政府不允许我们那么做，维州警方也认为我们学校只可管理在校区内的交通事务。这样，就不得不要靠我们大家用自觉守法的行为来解决交通问题了。
我相信我们是能做好的。我和办公室的几位老师在假期里查看了总校附近几条马路上的泊车限制标志，发现离开校园50米、100米及以外的居民区停车是无时间限制的。我们做了一个总校校园内外家长泊车示意图，凡是红色线标记的请勿停车以免受罚，凡是绿色直线标记的无时间限制停车，绿色虚线标记的为有时间限制停车，供您参考。
您多走几分钟的路找到安全合适的停车位，既可避免受罚，更是用行动对我们学校最好的支持。祝您顺利！
好，我们周末校园见！
胡培康
校长
Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School
Principal’s Message
Dear teachers, students and parents,
I’m glad to inform you our Term 2 starts this coming weekend (17/18 April), a week earlier than usual to make up one week missed in Term 1 due to COVID-19 shutdown in Victoria.
Today I would like to talk about a very serious issue with all the teachers, students and parents coming to the senior campus of MWSC on weekends.
Thanks to the great support from students and parents especially those who travelled 100 or even 200 kms to our school, there are over thousands of students on the senior campus of MWSC on Saturdays and Sundays. We sincerely appreciate your support and our teachers are trying their best to make sure every single student is taken care of in their Chinese language learning. However, we have also encountered serious traffic jam issue around the campus with roads terribly blocked during dropping-off and picking-up time and it is extremely hard for the ambulance or fire-engine to pass through if any emergency occurs. The local residents have reported us to MWSC, Monash City Council and responsible government authorities for several times and sometimes the complaints are about misconducts of our parents breaching parking rules.
Any community language school could not survive without the contribution of teachers, students and parents, let alone the support from mainstream schools, local governments and local communities and residents. In the last few months, I have discussed with local resident representatives and the Principal of MWSC for various solutions and one of the best choices is to have staff and volunteers guide the traffic at local intersections which is applauded by local residents. However, the City Council does not allow us to do so and Victoria Police also advices that we can only guide the traffic within the campus. Therefore, we have to rely on you consciously abiding by the traffic regulations.
I believe we can do it. I have double-checked the parking signs around the senior campus of MWSC and noticed that there are many non-limit parking spots 50m or 100m away from the campus. Please find the enclosed parking map for your reference. You are not expected to park near the red lines. Green lines are safe for you to park with no limit. Green dotted lines are parking spots with time limit. Please read it carefully before parking.
It’ll just take you a few more minutes to find a safe and suitable parking spots without parking fines. Thank you for your great support and wish you a pleasant trip on weekends.
See you on campus.
Kevin Hu, Principal
Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School
Parking Map of Senior Campus of MWSC
