Member

If we accept that corporate responsibility for all children who go to schools in that area, one sure way of making sure that other schools fail is to take kids away from them. We operate a system of resources following children, and with every child who goes out of that school to a successful school, money goes away from the school, and it is really difficult for them to then get back on their feet. They then have a slow decline. Some poor children go through five years of education while numbers have been declining, and maybe the school closes at the end. However, it did not close to begin with because the department thinks that if it makes it an academy, then it might succeed, or a new housing estate may be being built, and it did not want to close the school in case it needed the places.