New Free School confirmed for the area

yagamuffin

This was on BBC London news last night too.

David Barry

Yes it was, I think it was sharply edited down from the "Sunday Politics" program available on iplayer <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036c4gv/Sunday_Politics_London_07_07_2013/">HERE</a> about 40 minutes in.

Fin

<p>We need as many good schools in the area, and indeed the country, as we can get. </p><p>Educate our children and do it well, very well. The rest is just petty politics and semantics.</p>

yagamuffin

What we need is a high standard of free education. We don't need free schools or academies, we don't need competition., we should be taking all that money and effort and invest it in exiting schools, making sure that every child in the land has access to the same high quality education.<div>It's the same as the NHS, we don't need more privatisation we just need to improve the existing hospitals, making sure that everyone has access to the same high level of care.</div>

Idoru

Hear, hear<br>

Mirandola

More here: http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/1798984-Why-was-this-bid-to-set-up-a-Steiner-School-rejected