Sinfin Community School will become an academy

“RDC

Evidence! How much do you want? The school claims best ever results at 42%. Best ever!!!! That puts them in the bottom 10% of secondary schools. They are in special measures and have been for a while. Attendance is awful and has been for a long time. The number of applications is at a level that if it continues closure will have to be considered.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows!!!”

“rdc180368 stop spouting your discredited labour propoganda.”

“@Bernithebolt... Nice try - but a bit clumsy all the same.

Do tell... what is this "evidence" from the "last 30 years"? That's just one of your myths and a diversionary tactic after I pointed out that Gove hasn't supplied any credible case for such a dramatic change.

You're quite certain that there weren't any "don't knows" or "not sures" in that 56%, then? That really WOULD be astonsihing... unless of course (and in the greatest traditions of East German 'democracy') you count an "undecided"as a 'yes'. Makes sense in your world, I guess?

Schools are there, above all, to give children a sound education. Of course a school can always do better... but can you explain to me how allowing Mr Day and his Greenwood Dale Trust to be parachuted in to make money for themselves out of all of this will automatically results in pupils doing better?”

“rdc

The evidence of the last thirty years is there for all to see! It hasn't worked! You come from the land of the blind where the one eyed man is king! There are other lands where people can see with two open eyes.

I also assume on your Maths that 56% didn't ! More importantly get over it and move on!”

“@Bernithebolt... On the contrary, it sounds like you support the politically-motivated game-playing of Mr Gove - and that's game-playing with kids who need a leg up at its centre.

You clearly didn't read my post properly, which was based on evidence from other academies (for example, Djanogly Academy in Nottingham just last week) and I assume you're also quite happy to ignore the inexcapable truth that at least 44% of respondents in the consultation wanted the school to remain with Derby City.

Where is the evidence that this will improve the education that the Sinfin pupils will receive. Mr Gove hasn't offered any. Greenwood Dale also say they are retaining the existing Headteacher. It's almost as if we're living in East Germany twenty-odd years ago!”

“All the pseudo-communist teachers and their union will be up in arms. TOUGH.”

“rdc

Read independents comments, they are excellent! Less bitter and twisted and more moving on is what is needed.”

“Does that mean the Kids From this school will be more well behaved even more so on the public transport they have to share with the general public,
on one occasion 2 girls had a willing lad on the top deck of the bus pulling his trousers off and was extremly explicit in there language, Bus Drivers have enough to think about without babysitting kids who's parents have brought them up to have no morales”

“independent... if it was just the youngsters of sinfin maybe some neghbourhood pride would help improve the school.”

“This is outrageous. It's quite understandable that parents, sick of the constant politician-orchestrated "controversy" that surrounds the school, have wanted to embrace anything that has been presented as a 'solution' to the problem.

I fear that this might only be the beginning of yet more aggravation for Sinfin though... Gove has his claws into the school now. The City Council has been committed to raising standards and the school has in any case been improving. How many more schools does Barry Day want to add to his empire? How can one man manage what now looks like 16 academies? What - or how much - is he getting out of all of this?”