‘It’s a dictatorship.’ Angry parents fight back against school takeovers

It’s like living in a dictatorship,” fumes Peter Hawkins, reflecting on the situation facing the school that he and generations of his family have attended. “There’s no way of knowing what’s going on, or of communicating with the people making the decision. We have no say in the future of our children’s school. It’s disgusting.”

On Friday the school in question, the Barclay school, Stevenage, is set to join Future Academies, the chain founded and chaired by the Tory peer, party donor and former academies minister, Lord Nash.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jan/24/its-a-dictatorship-angry-parents-fight-back-against-school-takeovers

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