Vibrant anti-academy lobby as teachers ballot to strike

Article on http://www.socialistworker.co.uk (12 June 2012)


"Around 60 parents, staff, pupils and local people attended a loud and lively lobby of a governors’ meeting at Worthing High School in West Sussex last week.
The protest was organised by the Worthing High Academy Action Group, formed in opposition to the school’s intention to convert to academy status.
Protesters chanted continuously for two hours outside the governors’ meeting and drove their cars in and out of the school car park hooting their horns.
Parents parked their cars outside the school covered in anti-academy messages. Pupils tied purple ribbons to gates and fences.
The school’s head, Alison Beer, has pushed hard to parents and pupils the supposed benefits of conversion in a “consultation” process."




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