THE `WHAT A GREAT SCHOOL! LET’S SHUT IT!’ AWARD
Goes To…
SALFORD CITY COUNCIL
(Bulldozing Schools For The Future Dept)
Which local education authority would take one of its best performing schools and shut it? Salford, of course! St George’s RC High School, in Little Hulton, gets great exam results, is over subscribed and has recently been designated a specialist Technology College. The local community overwhelmingly wants it to stay open, and even Salford Labour MP, Babara Keeley, is opposed to its closure, saying the school is “real asset to our community”.
That hasn’t stopped the Council ploughing ahead with plans for its closure, trying to silence its staff along the way, and, in the words of St George’s Head Philip Harte, “blackmailing” other Catholic schools in the city, saying that they won’t get any investment unless St George’s shuts.
Meanwhile, in East Salford it’s the primary schools at Charlestown and North Grecian Street which are being bulldozed and merged to make way for a new school in `New’ Broughton, nowhere near where many Charlestown parents live.
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