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The article in today’s Nuneaton News gives us hope:
A DATE has been set for parents to meet with the government minister for schools to try and over-rule a controversial academy decision.
The Nuneaton News can exclusively reveal that a group of parents will meet with Vernon Coker, MP, the minister of state for schools and learners, in Parliament on Monday, December 14.
They are delighted that they will finally will be able to tell the powerful politician how they feel that Warwickshire County Council has ignored their concerns about closing Alderman Smith and Manor Park schools, and forged ahead with plans for the flagship academy.
I share their delight in being able to speak to the minister directly. Certainly no-one has taken any notice of us at the consultation events which have taken place on several occasions. When no-one takes a head count or bothers to make notes of objections you know that a consultation is just a sham.
The ladies who have spearheaded the campaign against the academy have my full respect for their dedication to the cause of ensuring that the children of Stockingford receive the best education possible in a manner that their parents would choose. Two schools not an academy.
I could not help but notice again in this newspaper that although I attend and speak at all of the meetings and have given plenty of my own time to this campaign I cannot get a mention. A councillor from a different party gets all of the praise. Oh the joys of being a councillor for the British National Party.
