Investing in education

Published: 24 February, 2011

• IT’S all very well for MP Glenda Jackson to criticise the Education Bill as “monstrous,” but she forgets what families want: a good local secondary school (Back to ‘them and us’ education? Forum, February 17).

Many Camden parents, from Belsize to King’s Cross, see the Education Bill as a way of finally getting the much-needed local schools that they have wanted for years. 

The Labour government, of which Ms Jackson was a part, failed to spot a baby boom that has led to a desperate need for primary places.

There was a lack of investment in our children’s future, and this was at a time when the government had far more money coming in. 

Hundreds of kids across London are being educated in temporary cabins as a result.

I’d love to hear other suggestions on how we might get the schools we need. 

We can’t afford to play politics with our children’s future.

G CONN
Swinton Place, WC1