A protest involving about 200 people outside WA Parliament is hardly likely to have the Government quaking in its boots, but there are plenty of reasons WA Labor should be worried about the continued blowback to its plan to close Moora Residential College.

The potential enormity of the issue lies in no small part in the fact it is unlikely to go anywhere, anytime soon.

One of the trucks that protested against the Government's planned closure of the Moora Residential College. ( ABC News: Briana Shepherd )

Students will remain at the residential college for close to nine more months, and it will be another month after that before the new school year gets underway.

That is problematic for the Government because until the doors are locked for the last time and students move elsewhere, opponents will feel they still have a chance to get the decision overturned.

That could mean many more months of protests, negative stories in the media, and of attention being drawn away from other things the McGowan Government tries to do, particularly in the education sphere.

The Moora opposition movement has shown itself to be well organised — gaining traction on social media and targeting the attention of journalists, while drumming up enough support to mount a sizeable protest in Perth.

And the critics are showing no signs of slowing down.

Rural WA is 'awake and galvanised'

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"You have now poked a hornet's nest," Louise House, the Deputy President of the Shire of Moora, said at this week's rally.

"Rural WA is now awake and galvanised and we will not go away."

The threat of the college closure was enough to get the WA Country Women's Association up in arms, and spurred it to hold its first ever protest rally last month.

Furthermore, other education decisions the Government has made have given protestors the impetus to push on.

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When the backlash to a decision to move Perth Modern School to a high-rise location in the city and convert the existing facility to a local intake school grew large enough, the Government abandoned its plans.

Also scrapped was the Government's decision to close the School of the Air, after a substantial protest to that move.

The Government has set a precedent that it is willing to reverse contentious decisions if there is enough blowback — an unintended, but not insignificant, gift to protestors.

Despite that, the Government is continuing to insist it will not budge on Moora, pointing out what it sees as a key difference.

"From the School of the Air protests we heard, very broadly across the state, both country and metro people were of the view they were willing to cop that expense," Labor frontbencher and Agricultural Region MP Darren West said.

"We are not getting that vibe from the Moora protests, it is predominantly very localised and I note that each protest has gotten smaller."

Sorry, this video has expired CWA protest against closure of Moora Residential College ( Eliza Laschon )

Mr West conceded the issue was "sucking oxygen away from the broader education debate" and taking attention away from other things the Government was doing.

Few within the Government would dispute the claim that it struggled to get the public messaging right on the education cuts, and there is a belief in some quarters those problems are a big part of why the backlash was so significant.

The Government, however, is adamant the decision to shut the Moora Residential College is reasonable, insisting the number of students affected is small, and they can be accommodated elsewhere.

But with an unhelpfully long timeline and a protest movement that is both well-organised and highly determined, it is increasingly clear the McGowan Government cannot realistically expect this issue to disappear anytime soon.