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Guest

#25 Stats

2014-02-24 19:38

The COI pupils in the 2 COI primary school are not going to fill all 120 places probably only at the most with parish affiliation your talking in the region of maybe 40 children approx leaves 80 spaces for every other child from remaining 5 schools I don't think it's that big a deal based on the COI winning Patronage! We do need another secondary school as well as this one as the numbers are getting bigger as the years go forward.

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Guest

#26 Re: Stats

2014-02-25 10:00:53

#25: Guest - Stats

The issue relates to 1) whether parents were misled during the bid process about whether the new school would be open to all children from the seven local feeder schools. The clear impression was created that this would be the case. There was ample opportunity to correct this when relevant questions were asked on this issue. Many people do think this is a 'big deal'

 

2) the number of students of  secondary school age is going to increase dramatically in a few years time with significantly increased demand.

 

3) Is it a wise use of taxpayers money to build a third secondary school when two may be quite sufficient?


Guest

#48 Re: Stats

2014-03-05 11:34:46

#25: Guest - Stats

For many the issue is whether the patronage was won under false pretences. During the bid process questions were asked about what would happen in the event of oversubscription and certain assurances given. This has the appearance as being very underhanded and deceitful.

The number of parents supporting VEC and Educate Together exceeded the numbers for COI according to the final tally.

This makes the 2015 developments look rather ill-advised.

Best thing is for a re-run of the bid process, now that the BOM has shown that they will not live up to the commitments made during the bid process.

 

Cannot see any future bids for new faith-based schools succeeding after this. That is one probable outcome.

All the hallmarks of a smash and grab ignoring the bigger picture. Very sad overall.