COUNCIL ADMIT THEY GOT IT WRONG!!!!

On one of my many searches online I found this posted on a Glasgow based website to my amazement this information has not been shared with the parents the council have so badly let down.

Posted on Glasgow Based website:

In an embarrassing gaffe by members of Glasgow City Council, revealed over the weekend, it was shown that the principal reason put forward for the closure of nearly two dozen schools in the city earlier this year could not now be supported by official statistics. In April this year leading Labour politicians within the country's largest local authority revealed that they intended to close a significant number of city schools because of "falling school rolls". However, it has since been found that school rolls in Glasgow are actually on the increase, although city council planners and politicians claim that the rising number of children attending schools in the city has taken them by surprise.Councillor Stephen Curran, the politician responsible for overseeing service reform within the council, confirmed the rise in pupil numbers when he said that there were "more children in Glasgow than we had been expecting". In an added development the councillor intimated that the rise in school rolls would now mean that politicians would have to make an extra £2million in cuts to the city's education budget to accommodate for the increased number of pupils in city classrooms.Although pupil numbers are on the rise, the council has appeared to rule out any possibility of a reversal of the controversial, and deeply unpopular, closure of 20 city schools earlier this year. In a number of cases - as with Barmulloch Primary School in Glasgow North East (shown below) - the school has already been demolished, despite the fact that the term has only recently started.

It is an appalling situation that our council have left us in but I can't help wondering if these are in fact new figures to the council or just another cover up by our city council officials as they begin to look at the rising costs of the repairs to the few schools that were keep open. Glasgow City Council has failed again whatever way you look at it but surprise surprise its not the councillors who are paying for the mistakes NO ITS OUR CHILDREN AGAIN!!!.

We cannot let this mayhem within our city continue if you can write, email or hound your local councillors ask them to explain why our children have to suffer for there never ending mistakes, make sure you have a voice and make sure it is heard before more of our valuable schools are lost.

Lynn Scott

Update and Shelia mckechnie awards

Hi All

Well since my last blog post it has been a busy month with trips to London for the Sheila Mckechnie Awards interviews and awards ceremony. I was nominated for the consumer Action Award on behalf of the parents and the school closures campaign and out of thousands of applicants I made it to the final three people winning a finalists position this has given some well needed publicity to our campaign to keep this campaign in the limelight as much as possible so now that the awards ceremony is over we will be working with the sheila mckechnie foundation to gain as much help and advice as possible.

I will hopefully be attending some campaigning workshops and networking with some hopefully very influential people who could possible help us and anyone else out there who is needing support on this issue. Please get in touch if you need advice on school closures or if your school has already closed but you are still angry and want to send out that message to the public we would love to here from you but remember this site may be accessed by children so no fowl language please.

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FIRST DAY DISTASTERS

Today saw our children face there first day at the new school in Germiston and yet again Glasgow City Council have let our children down.

we have constantly highlighted the problems with safety on the new route to school yet Glasgow City Council had NO Crossing patrols on the roads apart from the one man left standing outside our old school building clearly to cross over the hundreds of children that won't be going there today.

Not only did we not have crossing patrols but our support teachers were left standing outside our old school building phoning round to find out why the school they were sent to was closed. Glasgow City Council is a disgrace and the councillors should hang there heads in shame over these blunders. God only hopes it improves by tomorrow.

Well done Mr Purcell your right we have all forgotten what you have done because of the smooth transition to our new school YEH RIGHT!!!

Lynn Scott

Stop Taking Start Giving

some of the parents from Barmulloch Primary are arranging a meeting with the Candidates and Councillors in Glasgow North East and doing a demonstation on the Road they children will now have to walk down to get to the new school we want to ask our politicians to stop taking resources from Barmulloch and start giving back to our community by building us a new school.

Hope its a sucess so far had a reply from almost every candidate to say they will be attending just one to go.

Need to make sure the press are aware of who will be there.

Lynn Scott

Chat time this week

Hey all our chat time this week will be wednesday night 8PM. Join us if you can have a chat about anything you like not just school closures but anything you like. all chat rooms have admins for your saftey.

Log on and we will see you there.

Lynn

Calls for a change in law

Today I have been writing to some of the committees in the scottish parliament to ask for there support in progressing with a change of law which allows us to give our children adequate space in the classroom to learn.

Health and Safety currently have no legislation that we can find that dictates how much space is needed per child and we are trying to have this changed currently councils go on outdated capacity levels when they are looking at schools for closures and if adequate space was provided per child forcing these capacity levels to be re addressed the council would find it more difficult to close schools with higher roles.

The petition is available for signature at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/stop-school-closures.

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Chat with parents

next time time this tuesday 8pm join us with any questions or just general chit chat. come along.