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I believe the answer to this lies with the creation of academy status for various schools. These schools are funded directly by government grant which means by definition they are no longer answerable to the local authority. The academy status is driven by league tables. If local academia cherry-picks star pupils from around the country in order to boost their results it’s not surprising that their league table performance is impressive. Why else would we have this huge influx of children from outside the borough at 20 years ago the majority of our grammar school the expense of our own children’s education? places were allocated to local children; by September 2013 of the 608 places available only Once again we appear to have created a 184 will be filled by local children. The rest will monster that is self-serving and does little to commute here from the outside borough. Why benefit the local community. are children travelling to Southend for their education from as far afield as Kent, London and In the past Southend-on-Sea always took pride in its education system, with excellent primary Colchester? schools preparing our children for grammar or comprehensive school senior education. The local centres of excellence – our grammar schools – provided senior education for pupils living within the Borough. recent article in the Sunday Times stated that Southend-on-Sea was one of the best British coastal towns in which to live. One of the reasons quoted was the opportunity of a grammar school education. But with more than two-thirds of the grammar school places going to out-of-towners it would appear that local parents have a better chance of their children receiving that education if they live outside the borough.
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We need to ask: a) Are our non-selective schools offering a bet-
ter choice of education? b) Are parents discouraging their children from a grammar school education? c) Are our primary schools discouraging our children from a grammar school education? d) Are children from outside Southend-on-Sea being better educated and prepared than our pupils? Our educationists should be planning 5,10,15 and 20 years ahead, ensuring that our children receive an education to match the job opportunities created from the airport expansion and all ancillary businesses that go with it. Southend has a golden opportunity to We know that education is the major plan and drive itself out of this recession, not drift contributor to driving out poverty and creating in the hope that tomorrow will look after itself. job opportunities, both academic and vocational and this must be balanced with the jobs that are being created within the town. Children from our primary schools must be given the best educational opportunities and be able to choose which senior education system they want to enter. It is amazing to me that we have drifted so far away from reality that we have forgotten that the most important thing we have to consider every day is providing the best education possible for our own children. This absurd state of affairs has arisen because of political obsession with league tables. Being voted “The best Council� and getting local schools higher up league tables seems to be all-important, but without the inclusion of local residents children the exercise is vacuous. Why are we educating children who will take that knowledge away from Southend for the benefit of another town? Why are Southend-on-Sea educationists celebrating the increasing popularity of nonselective schools? Are they becoming more popular simply because local children are not entering the grammar schools? In my view local educationists should only be celebrating when they improve the local education standards but, sadly, last year only 45% of Southend children attending non-selective schools achieved 5 good GCSE grades including English and Maths, against a national average of 59%.
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Southend-on-Sea has some of the most deprived areas in the country and our ability to alleviate this situation can only come about with decent housing, education and job creation. Unfortunately residents have seen failure in all these areas over the last two decades. This has to change. Education is at the heart of our future prosperity and I have written this article in the hope that it will encourage local debate that might lead to a change of policy direction and create better educational opportunities for local children.
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Under The Hammer auction house which had seen it. Bidding's off to a quick start and all three phones are busy. We're quickly up to £1,000 and then coast along til the hammer goes down at £1,300 to a buyer in Thailand. Several other Chinese pieces make serious money followed by lots of good jewellery and watches. A vintage stainless steel gents Rolex romps home at £1,000, well above the usual price for the same item, followed closely by a miniature painted on top of an ivory box at £480.
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