Last night over 100 people attended a meeting at Alexandra Primary School to look at proposals for a new secondary school in Haringey.
The Government has changed the goal-posts to insist on a choice of the type of schools. Now, I am all for choice, however I fear that the School Adjudicator may go with "big bucks" rather than the desire of democratic and locally accountable education - that is the school favored by the local education authority (LEA).
Haringey's bid, which I fully support, is for an 11-16 year old mixed, multi-faith community comprehensive school the Wood Green, Hornsey and Haringey Heartlands communities with an opportunity to become part of a hard federation of successful schools.
The school will specialise in the visual arts and media which will enable it to benefit from its unique location in the cultural quarter of Haringey (The Chocolate Factory and Mountview Theatre). It will also have an additional specialism in supporting students with autistic spectrum disorder. The school would work to Haringey's over subscription admissions criteria.
And that sounds good to me.....
But, in fairness there are three other options from the CfBT Education Trust, the Haberdasher's Aske's Hatchman College Trust and the United Learning Trust, a Christian faith organisation for the Church of England - yup, really representing the highly diverse multi and non-faith communuities of Noel Park and Haringey.
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