Schools: let the people decide!
By Tim Cooper In Nottingham the council is proposing that a local small private Islamic school become a large LEA voluntary-aided school. This move is being opposed by all the local schools. They will have their most academic pupils creamed off to an elitist school, and it will be the death knell for many schools already facing closure because of fewer children in the area. We love our local schools, and we are proud we have not had the same segregation as occurred in Oldham, Burnley or Bradford, with their subsequent poor race relations. Yesterday Unity school (near the Islamic school and the...