Well done and thank you to everyone who signed and promoted our West Sussex County Council e-petition over recent months.
The petition is now closed and last week we submitted over 500 signatures (online and paper) and have received acknowledgment of these today from WSCC. This is a sufficient total to request a Select Committee debate about our academy concerns in the county. A good result and at
odds with the Worthing High press release of 1st October, published on the school's website, which inaccurately states:
"The On line petition that WHAAG started on the West Sussex County Council website, launched in July 2012 against the whole academy programme in West Sussex – not justWorthing High -received just 151 signatures before it closed on 30thSeptember 2012. Quite a few of those signing also didn’t provide their Ward details so their names will be invalid. This is 151 people from an adult population in West Sussex of over 650,000 – 30% of the 500 required for the matter to be raised at a Select Committee and 5% of the 3000 needed for a full county council debate.”
We have asked Worthing High to retract this.
"The On line petition that WHAAG started on the West Sussex County Council website, launched in July 2012 against the whole academy programme in West Sussex – not justWorthing High -received just 151 signatures before it closed on 30thSeptember 2012. Quite a few of those signing also didn’t provide their Ward details so their names will be invalid. This is 151 people from an adult population in West Sussex of over 650,000 – 30% of the 500 required for the matter to be raised at a Select Committee and 5% of the 3000 needed for a full county council debate.”
We have asked Worthing High to retract this.
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