This was the consensus of those who attended a series of meetings recently held by the National PTA.

The group's president Mr. Ross Smith said yesterday that parents had a list of concerns that they were determined to have addressed by the Education Ministry.

Parents met at Southampton Glebe Primary School, Wesley Methodist Church Hall in Hamilton, and at Bethel AME Church Hall over the past couple of weeks to thrash out their concerns.

"The base of their concern was a disbelief that there is a burning desire in the Department of Education to produce meaningful restructuring,'' Mr. Smith said.

"They don't trust the Government to implement what they say they will, particularly middle schools and mainstreaming.'' He noted the Education Ministry had promised that teacher assistants would be provided for schools that took in special students. But, Mr. Smith said, in cases where this has been done, it was not working.

He also said parents were concerned that there seemed to be no timeframe for mainstreaming other special students into the regular school system.

On the issue of converting secondary schools into middle schools, Mr. Smith said parents wondered if there would be sufficient funds for Government's plans.

He also said parents were still waiting to learn why no middle school plans were drawn up for Roger B. Chaffee which will be included in the US base lands returned to Bermuda.

Parents also voiced "grave concern'' that the planned senior secondary school will exacerbate the drug situation.

Among parents other concerns were a lack of information on: The training of teachers for middles schools; The standard of the Bermuda Secondary School Certificate; and The Code of Conduct final draft which was sent out to principals.

Mr. Smith said parents called for: The same "high-level'' curriculum in all schools; A maximum number of 15 students in each primary school class and a maximum of 20 in each high school class; and A discipline and dress code for teachers and students in order "to return to higher morals'';