Saved schools come under attack again

PARENTS of pupils at two schools saved from closure just months ago are dismayed that the debate might be opened again.

Tribal Consulting's Fundamental Spending Review recommends that Education match the number of places in schools to what the island needs.

Closing St Andrew's Primary and St Sampson's Infants could save £4.56m. over five years, it says. Both schools survived a debate on closing them in January.

Pupils could be absorbed by other schools and some teachers redeployed.

Lois Falla, whose son Harvey, 8, goes to St Andrew's, said the school's future had been decided and the report's recommendations were predictable.

'It is just about cutting costs - they are not experts in education. If this goes any further, the people who are talking about it need to remember they are talking about the lives of children,' she said.

'We won the argument fair and square and it was based on fact. The children have already been through enough disruption.'

St Sampson's PTA chair Tracey de Carteret was not surprised by the report's recommendations.

'If the States debate it we will deal with it as and when it happens,' she said. 'We are not worried. The intake is in and parents will start registering with us again.'