Protect village schools

Once again this urban government seeks to close 43 primary schools in Shropshire.

This includes schools that do not have four classes or more, which is most primary schools in South Shropshire.

These are the schools with excellent Ofsted reports. Children that leave these schools have a great working knowledge of the three Rs, which is more than can be said for some inner city, large primary schools.

These village primary schools are well supported by the parents, good discipline is maintained and it is these children that will attain the best A-level results because of the sound start they have been given.

Losing the village school will hasten the demise of the village shop and Post Office, which will make the village, in council jargon, as unsustainable with the financial losses that this incurs.

Has the cost of transporting these children miles to school been taken into the equations?

I urge all parents, grandparents, ex-pupils to tell your councillor, MP or education department that this is unacceptable.

If you do not protect your rights now, you will lose all of this. Once you've lost it, you are not going to get it back.

H S Morris, Minsterley