LET there be no doubt that the current assault on school funding in Oxfordshire (Schools will suffer in funds shake-up, November 6) is just the thin edge of the wedge.
Michael Gove will now quicken the pace of cuts and there is nothing Oxfordshire County Council, or any other local authority, can do to mitigate the consequences of central Government’s budget slashing.
Councillor Melinda Tilley’s plaintive “we are worried about it and we don’t want to see any schools missing out” is a feeble cry in the dark.
She could of course publicly express her opposition to Gove’s attacks on the state education system, but this would require an admission that Oxfordshire County Council’s support for Gove’s academies and free schools has been, and is, wrong-headed and educationally delinquent.
And even if Mrs Tilley were to speak out, Michael Gove lives on a ‘higher plane’ of self-obsessed discourse.
Meanwhile, Oxfordshire pupils (and those beyond Oxfordshire) will continue to suffer and schools be forced to make further impossibly wretched decisions.
BRUCE ROSS-SMITH, Bowness Avenue, Headington
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