| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:In the news today ... | |
| Posted by: | Iain Muir | |
| Date/Time: | 08/07/10 13:45:00 |
| This is an extract from an article Stephen Pound,MP for Ealing North wrote for the Ealing Gazette. (it is available in full on the Ealing site).... "Even as the axe slices through the hopes and aspirations of the people that I represent the cursed Coalition have had the gall to suck vast sums of public money from the education budget to take a wild punt on one of the most ill thought out and divisive fantasies ever conceived – the so-called “free school” madness. Brentside High School loses out so that some pushy parents can set up a bijou academy free of any sane inclusive admissions policy and teaching what they will to the little darlings who they believe will suffer irredeemable damage if they have to study with the ordinary kids who go to what are actually some of the best state schools in London. Cuts for the council, funding for the “free schools” and a national nightmare as the economy is driven into double dip recession." |