Letter: School closures will ruin Shropshire villages
Friday 18th March 2011, 6:00AM GMT.
Letter: In the 1980s the Conservatives closed many coal mines and ripped the heart out of mining villages, leaving communities destroyed.
The Tories seem to have learned nothing as they try to close village schools which will have the same effect.
Why is it communities of ordinary working people who want a good education for their children in the local village school are being picked on to bear the greater burden of financial cuts?
Our locally-elected Tory councillors do not appear to want to support the people who elected them. This makes the big society look somewhat hollow and false.
The Chancellor, supported by his Lib Dem stooges, let the banks off the hook on taxation and bonus payments last week.
One banker’s yearly bonus would solve all affected Shropshire schools problems for years to come.
The local MP, Mr Dunne, in his visits to schools has suggested affected schools could use the “free school system” and transfer from the local authority as a means of saving their school.
Parents should be wary of this so-far failing Government policy, designed for affluent and middle class parents. This is a cop-out, the biggest educational con of all time.
The Government says: “Here’s a few quid to educate your kids, now go away and don’t bother us.”
Just remember, this cabinet contains 18 millionaires, none of whom went to state schools or send their kids to village schools – and that includes Phillip Dunne.
Their actions will not be forgotten nor forgiven if our schools close.
RI Jeavons
Craven Arms
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‘Village’ schools have always closed in the past and no doubt will continue to do so in the future.
The school my Father went to once boasted a roll of 70+ pupils but when that dropped to below 20 the school was closed in the mid-1950′s.
If pupil numbers have decreased to a point where it is no longer viable for the School to stay open then why should it ??
The proposed closure of Lydbury North school for example, 44% of the children attending should in fact as a closest school to attend, be attending the Primary School in Bishops Castle, but send their children to Lydbury North which appears with its pupil numbers to have become some sort of ‘pseudo private’ school for in the main children of Parents who feel that the Bishops Castle option is ‘below them or their kids’
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An example of Tories doing what they do best closing things down,just remember this when the elections roll round,use you’re vote to kick this lot out.
We all don’t have the cash to send our kids to Eton,Maggie Thatcher used to say “Winners & loosers”
It looks like the kids are the loosers in this case.
This is of no concern to Mr Dunne,use your vote to let him know how you feel!
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