Overfilled schools force classes into staff rooms,

Rapid growth has pushed more than a hundred schools well beyond their classroom capacity - forcing them to teach students in staff rooms and libraries. The Education Ministry has warned the government new schools and classrooms are urgently needed in high-growth areas and parts of Auckland and Canterbury have critical unmet demand. A roll bulge is moving through secondary schools and last year migration brought an extra 20-thousand school children, half of them in Auckland. Education Correspondent John Gerritsen has more.