That's the view of the local Labour party, who have criticised Fife Council's Lib Dem/SNP coalition administration for making what they call 'grandiose' statements about a single site school at Madras College, while ignoring the problems that staff and pupils at Bell Baxter, Madras and Waid Academy have to contend with on a daily basis.

North east Fife Labour party spokesman Iain Miles said that the temporary huts at all three schools had been graded 'C', which was the worst grade the council could give them.

But he said that there had been no clear commitment from the administration to replace them.

"We were disappointed to learn that at a recent meeting with parents, a senior education manager maintained he himself had been taught in the Bell Baxter huts and it did him no harm," said Mr Miles.

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"We believe that as a senior education manager he should be ashamed that children are still being taught in temporary accommodation that served him so well decades before.

"While we welcome any statement on a single site for Madras as good news for the staff and pupils, we ask that the current administration spell out the details of how they plan to replace and refurbish the current secondary accommodation in north east Fife rather than making grandiose statements about the future."

However, Douglas Chapman, chair of the education and children's committee, said that almost £3million had been earmarked for replacing hutted accommodation across Fife during the next three years, an increase of £1.7million on what had previously been planned.

He said: "We are committed to improving the quality of classrooms where our children are taught and where our staff work.

"We are the first Fife Council administration to have recognised that temporary hutted accommodation soon becomes permanent hutted accommodation.

"Condition surveys for temporary accommodation are currently being updated and we now need to make sure that the money we have allocated is spent on the most pressing needs first across Fife.

"Discussions with schools will happen as plans are brought forward."