Parents and students still fuming at a Queensland government decision to close their school are considering grassroots legal action to keep it open.
Nyanda State High School in Brisbane's south is one of six schools statewide Education Minister John Paul Langbroek this week announced would not continue in 2014.
Federal Labor MP Graham Perrett has issued a call to arms to former students now working as lawyers to now take up the cause.
"There must be some former students who are lawyers who might be able to give us some legal advice," the Moreton MP told a gathering of about 200 people outside the school on Thursday.
Mr Perrett said it was the first step towards a judicial review of the decision, which could ultimately see a backflip from the state government.
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It comes after parents at Stuart State School in Townsville said they would consider a class action against the government and were encouraging other aggrieved schools to join their cause.
Potential Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten also gave his support to the Nyanda rally, urging the school community to fight.
Mr Shorten said, as Education Minister, he had tried to offer the state government extra schools funding, which might have saved Nyanda High, but it was knocked back.
"The Newman Government... thinks everything is a budget bottom line and nothing else counts," Mr Shorten told the crowd.
"They would know the price of this school, but they wouldn't know the value of this school." Old Yarranlea State School and Fortitude Valley State School in Brisbane and Charlton State School and Toowoomba South State School in the Darling Downs will also go.
The school communities have been up in arms about Mr Langbroek's decision since he handed in down on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr Langbroek has said his decision was final and there was no appeals process, but it hasn't stopped schools looking at ways around the decree.
The education minister also announced families would receive payments of between $500 and $750 to help with the cost of changing schools.
