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This from David Moorse, Shanklin. Ed
Closed by the Tories, and the few that survived, starved by the Tories.
Nationally, around 20% of schools are graded Outstanding … on the Isle of Wight, 0% of primary schools and 0% of secondary schools are now outstanding. Just to be an “average” county, we should have TEN Outstanding schools.
And we ‘celebrate’ any school that is not graded “inadequate” or “requires improvement” – now THAT is a low bar!
Be clever and vote together
Now we must prioritise people over profits, and …
… be clever and vote together to achieve our goal for our children and their futures.
I was responsible for implementing a two year key stage 3 in middle schools, where we delivered 6 years’ progress in 4 years and our children left year 8, achieving the level that the rest of England achieved by the end of year 9!
But the Conservatives closed the middle schools, instead of fixing the real problem!
Working to students who have been failed by Island education
I am now retired, but working almost full-time to support individual students who have been failed by Island education, I am having to turn away students as there are so many that need help.
Now, cash-strapped schools are losing out to exorbitant top-slicing of their budgets by academy chains, and “executives” leeching the money that should be going into classrooms.
Capitalist ideology does not work in state education – cooperation and collaboration work, but competition leads to duplication and the resulting expense of top-slicing to deliver central services, which drains the budget and damages schools.
Our children deserve better
I am deeply sorry to say that, with a six-year old child (in year 1), we seriously considering moving off the Island to access high quality secondary education for our son.
This should never be necessary anywhere in the country with proper funding and leadership, outstanding education should be standard!
Prioritise People over Profits
Prioritise people over profits – let’s be clever, and vote together and move forward positively, and consign the catastrophic cuts of the conservatives and the opportunistic exploitation of their cronies to history.
Education is one reason why we must all unite behind a single candidate to see change for the better.
See EastWightPrimary.org for details.
Article edit
6.45pm 17th Mar 2024 – ‘Good and’ added to national figures, as per request of the letter writer
8.02pm 18th Mar 2024 – Second para updated with correct figures by the letter writer
