I am due to go to a meeting tonight at my local Primary School where I sit as a parent governor. I have been away for two months in Australia and finishing a couple of new books I am writing so I have not been to a meeting for a while. The last time we met as a board with me present it was to discuss forced sponsorship by a local Secondary School because even with top marks in SATS tests on the day of HMI visits we were judged inadequate. Despite a huge effort from staff and the governors the school is on the verge of being made an Academy, in other words privatised through the back door and all the resources given to a neighboring town. This doesn't sit easy with me and I have fought it every inch of the way even as far as setting up a meeting with The Right Honorable Philip Dunne MP but all to no avail, so I am afraid if this is the case I will take my written expertise and knowledge from the school and consider my position as there is little point in fighting for a lost cause.
I do just wonder what Mr Gove hopes to achieve by pushing Local Authorities to forced Academy Status as it is no guarantee of success, in fact many Academies are still failing and if you take the likes of someone like myself and just ignore my input and those of my fellow local governors it is indeed a treacherous path that Mr Gove is taking. It also seems awfully strange to me that another four schools in Shropshire of previous good repute are now said to be failing and will soon come under the Academy microscope, therefore if you are right Mr Gove I salute your bold steps but if as I am guessing you are not then you risk alienating a local community and assisting it in losing it's school and that is something the electorate will be more than happy to remind you of come election time.
I do just wonder when the "privatised fixes all" campaign will be thrown out of central government, it clearly doesn't at all and leads to cost cutting and eventual take over of our many assets by foreign companies. The rail network is a hit and miss affair, don't start me on the NHS and now having almost destroyed the once great Royal Mail by under investment that too is to be sold off, goodness gracious me what a sorry state we are in this country that the powers that be are so busy putting CCTV up on our roads and streets they cant see the people who use them getting so very tired of the interfering nannies who think they know best.
I do just wonder what Mr Gove hopes to achieve by pushing Local Authorities to forced Academy Status as it is no guarantee of success, in fact many Academies are still failing and if you take the likes of someone like myself and just ignore my input and those of my fellow local governors it is indeed a treacherous path that Mr Gove is taking. It also seems awfully strange to me that another four schools in Shropshire of previous good repute are now said to be failing and will soon come under the Academy microscope, therefore if you are right Mr Gove I salute your bold steps but if as I am guessing you are not then you risk alienating a local community and assisting it in losing it's school and that is something the electorate will be more than happy to remind you of come election time.
I do just wonder when the "privatised fixes all" campaign will be thrown out of central government, it clearly doesn't at all and leads to cost cutting and eventual take over of our many assets by foreign companies. The rail network is a hit and miss affair, don't start me on the NHS and now having almost destroyed the once great Royal Mail by under investment that too is to be sold off, goodness gracious me what a sorry state we are in this country that the powers that be are so busy putting CCTV up on our roads and streets they cant see the people who use them getting so very tired of the interfering nannies who think they know best.
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