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To: Claire Perry
St Barnabas Primary - Protect our small schools
Please make sure you do everything to protect our small village schools. Our communities should have the right to decide the future of their schools.
Why is this important?
No two schools are the same. But the government doesn't seem to agree. It wants to rush through plans to force every single school in England to become an academy run by businesses, sponsors or trusts; not by members of the community and parents. As a result the school might not have the freedom to meet the needs of the community which they serve.
There is no evidence to show that academies perform better than maintained schools and there is a real risk small schools, like ours, would be closed as they are unprofitable.
