Leonora has been host to an immigration detention facility since June 2010 - it initially housed family groups whose young children did attend Leonora District High School, which includes Primary school to year 10 classes.
Jeff Carter says the teenage boys arrived before Christmas, but they didn't join the school when the summer holidays ended, and says he's written to Premier Colin Barnett to ask why.
"The infrastructure is in place, the children came to Leonora just before Christmas and DIAC [the Department of Immigration and Citizenship] has been trying to find buildings around town so they can start schooling, because they can't get into the local school."
A spokesman for the Department of Premier and Cabinet said the Premier advised the Commonwealth in late 2011 that Leonora DHS was not resourced to accommodate larger numbers of students or meet the needs of older children.
Jeff Carter agrees that the school couldn't accommodate 200 extra students, but he believes that the children would benefit from spending some time at the local school.
"Talking to the principal when they had extra children coming in last year they were doing floating classes, with some coming in the morning and some in the afternoon. There was a benefit for our school children because they were meeting different people and more children their own age."
"The infrastructure that was put in for the family groups that were here with children is just not being used at the moment."
"Local teenagers go to the school now, and with the last group of asylum seekers there were teenagers then and I know the older school children found it very good for them because they more children their own age, and they could play more sport with kids their own size, instead of playing with small ones all the time."
A spokesman from DIAC said in statement that on-site education is being provided for "all clients at the Leonora Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) throughout the school year."
"We have put in place an arrangement with the Shire of Leonora to use community facilities, while they are not being used by the local residents, to accommodate some programs as required."
"This is supplementing on-site education and recreation facilities. English classes are taking place on-site in the facility."
WA Greens MLC Alison Xamon says the State Government needs to take more responsibility for the children's welfare.
"I'm really a little bit tired of hearing that they think it's entirely the Federal Government's responsibility."
"I think we all have a responsibility to these children to make sure that we are giving them every opportunity that we can and I think that it needs to be resolved."
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