Huge support from Campaign for Real Education

A post on the Conservativehome blog by Nick Seaton of CRE supports the Clare campaign for a secondary school and asks why a Tory Suffolk Council closing a good school and saving a bad one?

He goes on to say that Clare is a small town in Suffolk situated roughly midway between Haverhill and Sudbury, each of which is about 10 miles away. At present, Clare has an excellent Middle School and Technology College for 9 to 13 year-olds, which Suffolk County Council (SCC) wants to close. Changing from a 3 tier to a 2 tier system of primary and secondary schools is sensible, but closing Clare's middle school instead of increasing the age-range it covers means that from the age of 11 upwards, children will be forced unnecessarily to travel perhaps 20 miles each day to and from secondary schools in either Haverhill or Sudbury.
Even if other considerations are ignored, at a time when we are supposedly faced with global warming and overcrowded roads, does it make sense to close a successful and popular local school? Common sense says not.

The blog gives those reading the post the opportunity to comment and many have! Read the full article and have your say by clicking on this link http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2008/12/why-is-tory-suf.html