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As schools are forced to be academies, the will of the
people means nothing
Saturday morning, and Stevenage appears to be bracing itself for a riot. Police
cars block off road after road. Sirens scythe the air. Officers hurry about in
hi-vis. And at the eye of this storm is not some motley crew of furious
insurgents, but hundreds of children and mums and dads, marching last weekend to
save the school they love.
“We are a small town and we aren’t used to staging demonstrations,” says
councillor Josh Bennett Lovell, which explains both the law-and-order overkill
and the bright-eyed kids enjoying all the excitement of a big day out. Only when
the marchers hit the town square does the carnival spirit give way to speeches
highlighting the seriousness of their situation.
Should these fighters lose, on Friday the Barclay school will be handed over to
an academy trust based 35 miles away in central London that has, they say,
barely shown its face at the secondary, let alone talked to staff or parents.
That will be despite months of protest by the head and governors, a series of
strikes by teachers, packed meetings with worried locals, and parents and
children taking to the streets. Into the mic roars Pete Hawkins: “We want to
work with a partner, not have a dictatorship come in!”
With that plaintive shout, the father of two Barclay pupils not only captures
this cause, he also shows up the bogus politics that has stalked this country
for over two and a half years. How many times have you heard that Brexit is
about taking back control, about throwing off shackles made in Brussels and
embracing homegrown democracy? Even if that means ministers flirting with the
idea of introducing martial law, contracting a ferry service with no ferries or
turning a motorway into a lorry park. Anything goes in government today,
provided it is done with full ceremonial lip service to the will of the people –
the very same people, of course, who the entire political class has spent
decades ignoring.
Then on an ice-cold Saturday morning along come some of the most ignored people
in British politics – residents of a taken-for-granted satellite town – to point
out that what’s happening to their school is more undemocratic and untransparent
and unfair than any number of Eurocrat directives, and it is entirely the
creation of the British state.
Because Barclay got a poor Ofsted report two and a half years ago, the
government will forcibly turn it into an academy. Which trust it is handed to is
determined solely by a Whitehall civil servant. Neither the local authority, nor
the school governors, nor the staff – and least of all the parents and pupils –
get any say in the process. This is the lawful regime, as set by former
education secretary turned defender of democracy Michael Gove.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/britain-schools-conversion-academies-eu