St George’s Group Issue Education Response
A community action group in St George’s Parish has issued a comprehensive response to the Parish Primary School Proposals, and has gathered signatures from over 400 supporters so far.
The group of parents, teachers and community stakeholders are appealing for more people to add their names to the document, which can be found here.
The group’s website link states, “The Parish Proposal adopts a one-size-fits-all approach applied across arbitrary geographical boundaries that would require the education system to essentially be rebuilt from the ground up.
“It would disadvantage those children that are in successful primary schools today, and goes against the typical approach taken to improvement – one of looking towards a system’s successes and working out how to build on those.”
“We recommend leveraging a pilot scheme before plunging head-first into nation-wide reform and we advocate learning, adapting, and improving from the results.”
A group spokesperson said: “Our response to the Primary Education Reform Proposal is going strong – nearly 400 people have signed, and we’re targeting hundreds more before midnight, Thursday.”
“If you have concerns about the Government’s plans to close several primary schools, please review our response document [PDF], and add your name to support.”
“Responses are due by midnight on Thursday March 11th, and the working group responsible is encouraging the community at large to get involved.”
You can view their response and petition here.
The Government’s proposal is to reduce the number of primary schools from 18 to 10 primary schools, recommending one primary school per parish, except for Pembroke parish that will have two primary schools.
The Department of Education wants ALL schools to be successful not just a few. This St. George’s group is being selfish.
Suck it up we gave them five more years to do whatever they want and they answer to no-one.