Ronald Kamerman takes his hand over the windowsill of his office in the Reestoeverschool in Meppel. And promptly the director has his hand full of leaves. Mind you, leaves of the trees from outside. And that while the window is closed.
No, the insulation in the school is not good. “In the winter it is cold here and children even complain that they are cold. In the summer we burn away here.” The heating costs of the school are therefore quite high. “I think we deprive a teacher here every year,” Kamerman complains. “That’s a shame. I’d rather use my money for education.”
Kamerman is also the director of the Mackayschool in Meppel, who is in a reasonably new building. “The heating costs of the Reestoeverschool are three times as much as the Mackays School.”
The old building from the seventies in which the Reestoeverschool is in is a reason that the school is only too happy to leave. That has been talking about for years, but now there is a study by the municipality of Meppel. The conclusion is that new construction between Nieuwveense Landen and Nijeveen is the most obvious. The municipality now wants to focus on this.
After the photo, read more about what the school should look like: