Public
Declaration to Mousehole School Governors and Persona Ficta PAT 7.7.2016
C.C.
Archbishop of Cantebury; Rev. Sian
Yates, Vicar of Penzance, Managing Director, Penlee ‘Academy’ ‘Trust’; All Governors of Mousehole School (as promised); Lucy Powell MP; etc.
Re: Attempted forced ‘academisation’ of Mousehole
Primary School, 2016.
I
am opposed to the above as I believe that the ‘academisation’ agenda is
originating from a morally bad place.
The programme was originally approved by Tony Blair, the well-known
war-criminal and the man who admits being partly responsible for the rise of
‘ISIS’ - not an auspicious beginning. The
fundamental problem with ‘academisation’ is that it robs parents and pupils of
rights and recasts education in a capitalist mould. Essentially, it trades off the best interests
of the community for those of business and materialist concerns. This is explicitly clear in the numerous
cases where ‘academies’ have dumped their parent-governors, thus robbing the
pubic of a precious democratic right to be heard by their peers. Head-teachers typically take on draconian and
far-reaching powers, holding kids back on frivolous grounds and expelling
pupils into a second-class education system, which can be owned by overseas
capital, such as the Canadian insurance company that owns one such chain of
these ‘sink-schools’ for troubled children.
Local Education Authorities are typically replaced by direct rule from
Westminster and ‘academies’ are run as businesses,
often with head-teachers awarding themselves and their ‘colleagues’ excessively
large salaries. Unqualified people are
brought in from the money-world to teach ‘skills’ to the youth. This is an insult to my idea of education.
When
I think of the Somme and my Grandfather who was a Colonel in the trenches and
my Great Uncle Arthur who was an ordinary Tommy and got gassed but survived,
and when I hear people talk about all that, it makes me think that those who
gave so much, ostensibly for our freedom, would want us to enjoy our freedom
and also to fight to protect our democratic rights. We don’t have to face lead, steel and
mustard-gas, after all, only paper and computers.
Since
trying to deal with Mousehole School Governors, Chris Roynon, Nigel
Carter-King, Rev.Yates the Freedom of Information Office, etc. I have met a
stone-wall. Letters have gone
unanswered. The offer of a one-on-one debate was sadly
wasted. The vast majority of the
governors never responded to me at all, despite my repeated invitations to
talk. The microscopic ‘consultation’
period at the end of more than five years of secretive planning was a cynical
exercise in nothing at all really, as it was not tied to any democratic process
whatsoever. The parents and community have
been offered no vote, only told that what’s happening is for the best – a
gambit that seemingly lets everyone off the hook, unless anyone was mad enough
to challenge it, that is.
I
feel I have been very unfairly treated indeed, as I have made numerous sincere
approaches to MSG for dialogue and have been cynically ignored by those charged
with the responsibility of representing my views on the education of my
child. The whole process has been
manipulated to exclude debate and dissent and this is unacceptable to me. By not giving me enough time to investigate
your process, you are negating my right to meaningfully engage or express my
objection, as your secrecy has concealed all the evidence I would need to look
at. When I pointed this out recently and
asked for an extended consultation period, I was told that this was impossible.
Since
central government, local government and our local Member of Parliament claim
to no longer be behind the ‘forced academisation programme’, and since I have
pointed out that the process as applied in Mousehole is a violation of the
community’s basic right to representation, self-determination and the
protection of its own interests, I feel that time is running out and things
must resolve. Some of the other parents
might have no objection to the ‘academisation’ – perhaps they understand it in
more depth than me and see it as something good. That does not detract from my right to speak
to my representatives and pursue my own beliefs. Since I have been met with such non-cooperation
and closedness, and since I have so little time in which to pursue my case, I
see no alternative but to resort to industrial action. Unless I receive a confirmation that MSG are
prepared to meet and negotiate with me and my chosen assistant-lawyer within
seven days, this action will commence.
Most
sincerely, Jeremy Schanche
(for
Cyril & Arthur & Co.) http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2016-04-13c.415
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