| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Carmelle James | We simply cannot allow our Schools to be closed the local people have spoken we demand to be listened to. |
| 2 | Maria Phillips | TOTALLY TOTALLY WRONG!! |
| 3 | Clayre Brown | IOW schools are the backbone of our community. The children and parents love them. The IOW's Primary schools are in the top 10% of country when it comes to Key Stage 1 results. The problems do not lie with the schools you want to shut down. Why fix something that isn't broken and not concentrate on what actually is the problem.
Stop thinking about lining your trouser pockets and think about our children! Primary Schools are important, they encourage our children and give them their happiest years at school.
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS!!!! |
| 4 | Lynn Hammond | TOTAL MADNESS |
| 5 | ROBERT.HAMMOND | |
| 6 | sarah peers | save our island schools |
| 7 | matthew toogood | pugh you stink! |
| 8 | Bridget Andarde | |
| 9 | PAUL DAVIS | THERE HAVE BEEN NO COSTINGS PRESENTED IN ANY OF THE OPTIONS AND THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES TO BLANKET CLOSURES OF OUR LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS.IS THE COUNCILS AGENDA TO POCKET THE MONEY FROM THE SALE OF PRIME BUILDING SITES ,PLAYGROUNDS AND PLAYING FIELDS.? |
| 10 | Paul Newton | |
| 11 | Emma Millard | Our children deserve better! This is not about educational excellence it's about cost cutting. Surely as tax payers the people should have the right to keep everything as it is. The children are the islands future, shouldn't we give them the best start possible! |
| 12 | Lisa | I think the Council's plans are insane. They should model the failing sector on the successful primary schools. Small local high schools. IMO |
| 13 | catharine mcnally | listen to the people, not the politicians! |
| 14 | James Rayner | David Pugh should be forced to resign. |
| 15 | Anonymous | As a parent and a primary school teacher, I am horrified by the sweeping changes that have been proposed. It seems that the children who will be worst affected, especially those in year 3, are to be sacrificied to a poorly conceived plan which pays no regard to the environment in which children learn. As usual, teachers have not been asked to put forward ideas for change. We do understand that changes may be needed to address the standards issue that some schools on the island face, but the proposed plans do not address these. Steve Benyan and Chris V.Porter are not accountable to the island electorate and seem to care little for the implications their proposals have for the island as a whole. Please listen and take more time to find some realistic, workable solutions which we can take forward together. |
| 16 | adrian whittaker | i will like to see an option 4 off no change |
| 17 | Vicki Wright | |
| 18 | David Herbert | I am in total oppostion to these proposals. |
| 19 | Andrew Nordbruch | These changes don't make sense. Closing the schools which are the best on the island and performing very well does not help improve declining standards at GCSE & A-Level |
| 20 | Tammy Vincent | Nearly everyone agrees that small schools are better for children. This is proven in our succeeding primary schools. Leave them alone and work on improving higher level standards. |
| 21 | Paul Critchley | These options are ill considered, rushed and destructive to the IOW. We want more imaginative options that are sympathetic to our rural communities. We need councillors who listen to their voters and do not allow themselves to be bullied by education officers who are clearly completely out of touch with what is best for our children. Get these options thrown out and lets have some creative thinking from our council. |
| 22 | julie taylor | I think the money would be much better spent on improving what we already have rather than changing everything. It will cause to much disruption and it will be the children who suffer. |
| 23 | Stephanie Edwards | Why close highly successful schools. Why not use their skills and expand them or share their expertise? |
| 24 | John Collingwood | |
| 25 | Anonymous | i attended the rally protest friday and saturday with my children and grandchildren, we moved to the island 1985 to give our chilren better education also i had children who were hearing impaired, they needed smaller classrooms and deaf teacher in a normal school enviroment my daughter now works in st marys blood department she achieved extremely well here so did my other daughter who is now the proud mother of 2 small children who attend st wilfrids primary and preschool. we want the best education for our children and grandchildren to continue. |
| 26 | Maria Hawkins | I think that the schools should stay as they are and they don't deserve to be changed, I have already made plans about what school I wanted my own children to go to when I have them, but I don't think I want them to go to any if they were changed because I won't understand what is what and I won't like the thought of how they would be changed. |
| 27 | Paul Rainford | These village schools are the cornerstones of village life on the island. To close so many of them would be nothing short of criminal. Also, the extra school-run traffic that would be generated by these closures makes a mockery of the Council's professed 'Eco Island' campaign. The Council should stop wasting thousands of pounds on false consultations and start listening to those on the frontline - in particular the parents and teachers. |
| 28 | sian young | I totally disagree with the council and govs my daughter is 4 and goes to greenmount primary which is one of the schools that fall into none of the options this school has always been where it is and should stay there to i refuse to send my daughter on a bus to a different school i dont drive as my docter has told me not to learn as i suffer with really bad panic atacks how on earth am i going to get her to a different school? greenmount has amazing off stead reports and a great headmaster who loves the school you know this by the way he writes his school letters every week not only this but i have a 2 year old son who has just been diagnosed with cerebral palsy in his legs what do i do with him ? .... i sugest that if they want to make the schools bigger then they need to make the prisons bigger cause i for one wont be sending my children to school and il refuse to pay any fines so bang me up thats what i say |
| 29 | G SCAMBELL | leave my school alone |
| 30 | Denise Cronin | Our local communities are already under threat with shop and post office closures, not to mention the number of houses being bought up as holiday homes. Closing our schools would be the last straw. |
| 31 | emma bowden | If our local primary school in brading closes down it will kill our village. I am strongly against closing any of the primary schools they are the best part of island education. |
| 32 | Sara Brown | The proposals are ludicrous. How can closing this amount of schools in one go can possibly be of benefit? And what about the pre-schools? |
| 33 | Clare Nordbruch | |
| 34 | Andrew Davidson | Village primary schools are a keystone to village communities. With their loss will come the deathnail of our small communities. We only have to look to the mainland to see where this leads to unsocial behaviour and crime. |
| 35 | Hellen Smith | |
| 36 | Janet Fisher | |
| 37 | Anonymous | This will lead to lower standards, cost huge sums of money and create massive unemployment. |
| 38 | amber boon | |
| 39 | Anonymous | |
| 40 | Jordan | im a student and i think Its Really stupid and pointless |
| 41 | Anonymous | i am a student and i think that the goverment should go to hell |
| 42 | Anonymous | |
| 43 | Lynn Jackson | My neice and nephew will be affected by the proposals to shut the schools. So I am supporting them and their education ! |
| 44 | Sam Todd | As the starting point for most of our students, the Primary Schools are essential to the infrastructure of many Island towns and villages.
Take St Helens as an example. Without the school, post office and the village green, there isn't much of a village to sustain.
OFSTED reports of these schools also consistently praise the standard of the majority of primaries on the Island, which makes the decision to get rid of them even more ridiculous. It would be like Manchester United getting rid of Ronaldo because he's playing too well - precisely what he's paid to do, by the way.
Personally, I'm in favour of having a two-tier system, which is what every other school across the land uses.
This would be more consistent with the mainland, making it easier for families to bring their kids over here, and vice versa. The Island would benefit from getting the best of both worlds, as ultimately, it's about bringing up the next generation.
On the whole, I believe the primary school crisis has shown a complete loss of perspective on the part of the council. It seems every August, whenever the results come out, the Council seem to panic and think wholesale changes, for the sake of change, is the way forward. More rational thinking is needed.
The attitude comes across as, if the A-Level/GCSE pass rates are high, then the exams are too easy, then if they are not, the students aren't good enough anyway.
The whole situation is a deep rooted problem which won't be solved by an "It'll be Alright on the Night" quick fix.
Even then, even Denis Norden could see the Primary Schools - the most successful aspect of Island education - are not the problem. |
| 45 | Jemma Valvona | |
| 46 | samir Salih | with the size of the IOW growing, closing some of the best schools in the country is madness, you can't rebuild excellence like that overnight, what a loss |
| 47 | Anonymous | Children learn more when they are in smaller classes and closing the schools will unsettle them, so the standard of education will drop. Therefore defeating the object! |
| 48 | DIANNE MOSTYN | The closures of Primary Schools, which are doing particularly well, is an absolutely ludicrous decision. Our children will be robbed of a decent education if these proposals go forward as well as many other social issues that will arise because of this, such as many more children having to travel further to school, preschools might not be integrated into primary schools, so no continuity for very young children, as well as all the disruption our children will face if these plans were to go ahead. We have to stop this from happening - we owe it to our children. |
| 49 | Anonymous | I don't see how the proposals can work with such a short time to suitably extend existing schools to accomodate all primary school children. We don't want our children educated in porta-cabins. Lets consider the impact on the childs education. |
| 50 | gillian locke | you'll take our schools yet reward yourselves with massive pay cheques, yet silence those who work for you, but we employ you, we pay your wage, we put you in power, we will make you unemlpoyed at the next election. save our schools |