School closures in the City's Outlook Newspaper
19/09/09 19:59
The Autumn 2009 edition of the City of Edinburgh Council's Outlook newspaper has an article on the proposed closure of schools in Edinburgh.
The article presents a number of 'Facts and Figures' to support the case for school closure but is clearly not an impartial article and also provides an opportunity for the council to distribute a misleading message to the parents affected by the closure and demonstrates (once again) their contempt for the consultation process.
This article has provided the council with an opportunity to propaganidise the case for closure (at tax payers' expense) while those who are against closure have no such platform to make our case.
At no point in the article does is make clear that Fort will not be closed but is being retained for the future population growth expected in this area. The article does not highlight the impact on the receiving schools and the class sizes of 38 in P1, 33 in P2, 37 in P3 that are being anticipated at Trinity. Instead the article points out that the closures can (not 'will' or 'do') bring educational benefits. Like the council's own proposal, nobody has yet identified what these benefits will be.
We have written to the editor of the Outlook newspaper to complain about this article.
The article presents a number of 'Facts and Figures' to support the case for school closure but is clearly not an impartial article and also provides an opportunity for the council to distribute a misleading message to the parents affected by the closure and demonstrates (once again) their contempt for the consultation process.
This article has provided the council with an opportunity to propaganidise the case for closure (at tax payers' expense) while those who are against closure have no such platform to make our case.
At no point in the article does is make clear that Fort will not be closed but is being retained for the future population growth expected in this area. The article does not highlight the impact on the receiving schools and the class sizes of 38 in P1, 33 in P2, 37 in P3 that are being anticipated at Trinity. Instead the article points out that the closures can (not 'will' or 'do') bring educational benefits. Like the council's own proposal, nobody has yet identified what these benefits will be.
We have written to the editor of the Outlook newspaper to complain about this article.