Academy '“ some questions remain
Like Dr James Walsh, I have a personal interest in Littlehampton Community School, which two of our children attended.
But his letter (Gazette, March 20) ignored some important facts and failed to raise a couple of essential questions.
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Hide AdThese are: what will be the composition of the new governing body and how will it be chosen?
What will the Woodard Trust be getting in return for its two and a half per cent of the money required to set up the new academy?
But there are fundamental issues here.
The government has responsibility to furnish our schools with necessary funds: why is it refusing to provide those funds for Littlehampton Community School unless plans for a controversial new academy are accepted?
Why is there a policy for taking schools out of local democratic control and putting them in the hands of unelected bodies on payment of a small proportion of capital funding?
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Hide AdTaxpayers' money is to be spent, why will its spending not be decided by elected representatives?
John Roberts, White Horses Way, Littlehampton
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