A local "SUPER" school scheme planned for development in Lowton has been scrapped under tough new austerity measures to save £55bn by the new coalition education secretary Michael Gove.
It was initially planned to merge both Lowton High and Golborne High schools to form the new super school on the site of Lowton Civic Hall. Although, the original plan had been met with much opposition the Labour ran council were willing to ignore the objectors and demonstrations and continue with the £257m borough wide Building Schools for the Future proposals, and no doubt Lord Peter Smith would have had his gangly grubby fingers in the till on this one and would have been flouting cronyism at the highest level on this project with giving jobs for the boys at one or two of his past directorships here at PFI, NWDA (Chris Wilkinson, NWDA Senior Development Manager and Peter Mearns, NWDA Director of Marketing both Matrix graduates at Common Purpose) or 4NW! (And Steve Barwick, who is Director of Sustainable Development, Policy and Europe at 4NW is also a Matrix graduate of Common Purpose! Just thought I'd let you know!)
No consideration was given to the distance many of the pupils would have had to travel if the two schools had merged. And additionally to the wanton destruction of some of the best areas of natural beauty that would need to be destroyed in order to put the new roads in to reach the initial proposed site at Hesketh Meadow from alternative routes.
Disappointed cabinet member for children and young people's services Cllr. Sue Loudon "tore into the decision." TOUGH!
I along with the vast majority of others in the locality welcome this decision by Michael Gove - not only due to all the austerity restrictions being imposed upon us - but, in what we saw as a criminal profit making and dumbing down exercise of our children by the powers that be. How better to indoctrinate our children with their vast left-wing social engineering agenda than getting as many children as possible into one vast area at any one time by merging all the local high schools together in what will create super huge class sizes - and feed their impressionable young heads collectively with utter nonsense.
These "super" schools scupper individualism denying the young and the gifted to flourish in their own right be it in academic or sporting achievements and thus creates just a 'conveyor belt' young adult who's no better or no worse than the last one off the line.
Thanks to some our supporters who made their voices heard at many of these anti- "super school" meetings even though we let a certain enemy of ours do most of the donkey work!
