Breaking promise over town schools
2:15pm Wednesday 14th May 2008
COUNCILLOR Liz Eyre is reported in the Shuttle's article School Closure Decision Disgusting' on April 24, as saying she wished the energy and enthusiasm of objectors could be redirected in favour of the proposed new two-form entry school in Stourport.
What a nerve! And what an insult to us as parents that she thinks she knows better than we do.
We suggest it is Councillor Eyre who should redirect her enthusiasm to safeguarding, rather than destroying, what is real and proven - ie the high quality of education at Lickhill Primary School, which is the product of hard work and co-operation between parents and teachers over a considerable number of years.
Good schools are built and worked for by the community. They do not simply emerge from Councillor Eyre's grand designs and flights of fancy.
Stourport does not want or need a new two-storey building squeezed onto a site which is too small for it.
It wants the new building for Stourport Primary School on the old middle school site and the necessary adaptations and extensions to Lickhill Primary School - both of which were agreed and promised at the end of the five-year Wyre Forest Review.
What we should ask of Councillor Eyre is why she and her Cabinet colleagues are now reneging on the promises they made to parents when they established two one-form entry primary schools for Stourport only 18 months ago.
It is our children who will suffer if their ill-considered closure proposals go ahead.
GRAEME HARVEY Parent of a Year 2 pupil at Lickhill Primary School Bewdley Road North, Stourport