| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:DOW - Gunnersbury School Admission Policy | |
| Posted by: | Alison Howard | |
| Date/Time: | 31/10/05 17:10:00 |
| It is such a shame in this country when something is successful that people start to knock it. Gunnersbury has done really well in recent years and it would be helpful to all local school children if the focus was on what it has got right and not on peevish calls to have it closed down. The success of Catholic schools in the area seems in part to the fact that they are not subject to local authority control. They have therefore been able to resist some of the petty dogma and politicisation of the schools under the LEAs. The new legislation planned by the Government (which is effectively a return to the grant maintained system) will allow this to happen. Hopefully it will provide an opportunity for some of the local state secondaries to arrest their decline. I wouldn't send my kids to Gunnersbury but they have done us all a favour by showing us how a school can improve. Changing to a system in which identikit schools deliver a uniformly bad standard of education would please nobody apart from Richard who would have the comfort of knowing that none of his tax money was being spent on schools his kids couldn't go to. |