The OSANFS & Barrrow Parents Action Group are having a protest tomorrow:
4.00pm-5.30pm between the Town Hall and Forum 28 Friday 19th June.
The BBC are covering it for the local news and the Politics Show.
The ordinary people in Barrow are standing up against the political manipulation and hypocrisy that has been going on.
One day we in Ulverston will have had enough too!
3 comments:
Won't be long and they'll put all schools in ulverston on one site as well.Just look at the upper school,how much land is there to be used
Here's a corrected version that makes a little more sense (?)
Having attended to demonstration in Barrow tonight, I find that I cannot support some of their actions.
They can be very negative - "Blackledge out,Blackledge out,Blackledge out,Blackledge out" doesn't sound very constructive.
I'd prefer a chant "Con-sult-a-tion" which I tried meekly to get going!
I can't support the idea of a strike of school kids in the school.
It really isn't their issue - they can't understand what it's all about. Naturally they don't want to lose their teachers.
If we thought an alternative re-organisation was the one we all supported; the children would still not want to lose their teachers.
The argument must be carried on OUTSIDE the school - parents at the gates, letters going in - fine.
Then lastly there's a tendency to blaming the teachers for not taking sides.
I wouldn't want them to have pressureput on them to take action. It's really not their issue to have to take sides on. Some of the demonstrators were very hard in their criticism of the teachers.
For most of them, I wouldn't expect them to be mature enough to take a stand.
The kind of teacher who took a stand left ten years ago - they decided that they'd had enough of the system and got out - and we're a lot poorer for it.
This attitude goes hand in hand with the view taken by many parents that it's the teachers job to bring the kids up with good discipline.
I would want the teachers to inspire my kids with a thirst for knowledge - to be enthusiastic - and not to feel pressured to chose and take sides in a game of political football.
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