Primary school closures to cost city £1.5m
29/08/09 14:25
You may have seen in the press this week that it was revealed that it will actually cost the council nearly £500,000 pounds in the first year to close the four schools targeted for closure. It’s interesting to look at how the investment required to implement these changes is being allocated:
Burdiehouse Primary - £790,000
Drumbrae - £605,000
Clermiston - £330,000
Granton Primary - £91,000
Trinity Primary - £15,000
Yes, that’s right, in order to accommodate the closure of Fort the council believes that Trinity requires only 0.8% of this investment! To put things further into context, that’s less than one third of the on-the-road price of the Lord Provost’s BMW 730d, which also carries a number plate valued at £500,000!
Clearly the council’s view is that only very minor changes are required at Trinity to provide the facilities and space required to accommodate an additional 96 children.
In order to make class sizes of 38 and 33 work, we apparently only require a partition wall to be built and some doors added to the school. The question for the council is a simple one; how can they convince us they are not sacrificing our children’s education for the sake of the budget?
Burdiehouse Primary - £790,000
Drumbrae - £605,000
Clermiston - £330,000
Granton Primary - £91,000
Trinity Primary - £15,000
Yes, that’s right, in order to accommodate the closure of Fort the council believes that Trinity requires only 0.8% of this investment! To put things further into context, that’s less than one third of the on-the-road price of the Lord Provost’s BMW 730d, which also carries a number plate valued at £500,000!
Clearly the council’s view is that only very minor changes are required at Trinity to provide the facilities and space required to accommodate an additional 96 children.
In order to make class sizes of 38 and 33 work, we apparently only require a partition wall to be built and some doors added to the school. The question for the council is a simple one; how can they convince us they are not sacrificing our children’s education for the sake of the budget?