Our council are reviewing their education budget and are proposing to close 2 local primary schools. This is based on the fact that county wide, there are nearly 15% of primary places vacant.
Both schools are very small (less than one class per year I.e. some years are taught together) and very rural. They are both more or less full to capacity, but have a large proportion of children from out of their catchment area. Each has their own head teacher, caretaker etc and I can see that relatively they must be expensive to run (on a cost per pupil basis).
They are both successful schools and their latest estyn reports are excellent.
Friends are up arms about this as their dc attend, but they are not in catchment for these schools and have chosen them mainly as they are feeder schools for what they perceive as better comprehensive schools (which they aren't in catchment for either).
They are saying that it will rip the heart out of rural area, yet they all travel to these schools in their cars when they could walk to their catchment schools. I'm struggling to see their point with this argument tbh.
My dc have nothing to gain by these schools closing since I cannot see that the money saved will be distributed between the other schools.
Both schools have made facebook pages to gain support and my friends have added me to both. While I will not unfriend myself, AIBU in not being supportive to them in trying to keep these schools open?
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To not support my friends in their fight to save their dc's schools?
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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 10/02/2013 21:47
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