" I work in a Sussex academy. I have seen at first hand the process involved in becoming an academy. Apart from the expense to the local community of giving away an asset to an unaccountable body, the principle itself cannot be right. Money is being made in times of austerity by organisations who provide no better a service than could be provided by the LEAs. The difference is that we pay with our income tax rather than council tax and lose any say in how our education system is run.
Although the advocates of academies claim otherwise, there can be no improvement in the quality simply because of the transfer to the private sector. My own school was threatened with having to stay in a dangerous building for several years unless we succumbed to academy status. The usual arguments were advanced then; they remain as hypocritical now as they were six years ago. "
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