Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Anti-academisation strike to go ahead at The Village School after negotiations fail

The  £19m Village School building could be handed over to a MAT

Staff at The Village School in Kingsbury, Brent will take strike action against the proposal to turn the school into an academy, part of a Multi Academy Trust (MAT). 

The strike will be going ahead at this special school on Thursday December 14th because negotiations so far have failed to change the situation and the governors will not meet again until January. There will be a picket and rally from 7:30am to 9:30am.

An NEU spokesperson said:
In September there were 32 NEU members. Now there are 125. Staff are joining every day because they say they want to strike against the school becoming an academy with the consequences to their terms and conditions and the negative impact on the teaching and learning of the pupils.
The strike has been backed by the Green Party. Pete Murry said:
As Green Party Trade Union Liaison Officer for Brent and for the London Federation of Green Parties, I wish to send support to the teachers at The Village School in Kingsbury who have voted to take strike action against the proposal to turn the school into an academy. If this retrograde step takes place it means the loss of a substantial educational asset for the people of Brent which large amounts of council resources have been paid to develop.
I would like to second the question of NEU (National Education Union) reps who ask why Brent Council is not opposing this proposed academisation, in spite of the reported opposition of Brent Central Constituency Labour party which the council purports to represent on behalf of the communities of Brent.
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1 comment:

  1. WSOS13 December 2017 at 19:04

    There is absolutely no evidence that becoming an academy improves standards of education. In fact, "inadequate" schools improve 5 times faster when they remain as community schools than they would as a sponsored academy. Some previously "outstanding" schools which converted to become academies are now either "inadequate" or "requiring improvement". The one thing which academisation does is to increase the salaries at the top, at the expense of the classroom and remove cooperation between schools in a local area.

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