Sympathy for families affected by dispute over school catchment areas
A READER was moaning about how they at Stannington pay into Bradfield parish council and it was unfair to change Wadsley village into their catchment. Well we pay it too and have a right to send our children to Bradfield secondary school.
This is a huge debate with regards to closing schools moving catchments etc. Residents on Wadsley Park Village are furious at the new council tax bills considering we still haven't been moved into Bradfield parish catchment for schools so why should we pay it.
Please view www.wadsleyparkvillage.co.uk/forum for more info .
Mrs Woodcock
I feel huge sympathy for Stannington families who have been dragged into further consultations due to the proposed closure of Wisewood School and its merger with Myers Grove School. All the families in Wisewood and Stannington with school age children are just pawns in the Council's number crunching exercise to rid NW Sheffield of the disputed surplus school places. Bradfield School has better GCSE results than Wisewood and Myers Grove Schools currently have, so the Council also assumes that when the schools merge many displaced Wisewood pupils will fill any surplus spaces at Bradfield. This is the modern day reality of cut-throat competition between schools.
Ms J D Shepherd, Studfield Grove, Wisewood, Sheffield 6
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