Head should join protest

Published: 14th October, 2010

• THE Conservative Party’s decision to cancel building projects in schools across the country is a disgrace and Camden schools have suffered.

As a recently retired headteacher myself, from an area of the country that has also had all its BSF money withdrawn, I was amazed to read Sue Higgins’s letter denying that Parliament Hill School was in need of refurbishment (School not at all ghastly, October 7).  

If this was really the case, why did the school spend so much time, and money, bidding for Building Schools for the Future funding? The bid was scathing about the state of the Heath Building and asbestos on site.

Presumably as headteacher Ms Higgins had some sort of role in writing this bid.

Staff, parents and governors should be up in arms that the funding has been cut by this government.

John Blake was right to speak out  on behalf of his school.

If he was a teacher in my school, I’d have thanked him. 

Instead, Ms Higgins seems to have rolled over and resorted to begging parents to send their daughters to the school. What kind of headteacher doesn’t fight for their school?

ALAN RUTTER
Longlands Road, Carlisle