| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Overcrowding at Derwentwater Primary | |
| Posted by: | Steve Donnelly | |
| Date/Time: | 26/03/10 14:00:00 |
| John, whatever else we may (from time to time) disagree on, we are clearly united that the dear old Torygraph is not the paper it was. One might not have agreed with it, but one could respect it. But the old values, such as clear differentiation between news and comment, have been lost in a blizzard of bile and slanted reporting that would have shamed Lord Beaverbrook. A loss to the nation, I think, whatever one's politics. On Derwentwater, I always suspected they would take this approach: although the consultation document talked in negative terms about the prospects for expansion there, in the context of what it said about all the other options, the suspicious old politico in me read between the lines. The big fear with the prospect of these huts arriving is that the definition of 'temporary' will prove elastic in practice. I was a governor at the school 1997-2005, during which time we were cursed with the presence of two rotting temporary classrooms where the new ones are proposed; they had long passed their sell-by date, but the money to replace them by rebuilding and expanding the school only came along in this decade. Given the prognosis for public sector budgets over the next few years, I would have worries that these huts would linger like their predecessors; unloved, unwanted and, ultimately, barely habitable. |