Letter to the Louth Leader published 16 June 2010

Dear Sir

On the day that the Chancellor announced £6bn cuts in public expenditure, the Head Teacher at King Edwards School in Louth wrote to parents asking for donations for the school’s sports day on 22 June.

Each year the school ignores the excellent two sports fields and recently-built sports hall on its doorstep, preferring to hire a “convoy of coaches” to take the entire school to a track in Grimsby at a cost of £1500.

The Head Teacher’s letter arrived about a week after another letter outlining the decision to cut the subsidy for individual music tuition by half.  A few weeks before that, the school spent time and money on a pointless consultation process about the admissions policy; after which, nothing changed.  Money has also been spent on signs and large TV screens around the school, the purpose of which mystifies my children and their friends.

Am I the only parent thinking that the management team at King Edwards seem increasingly to have lost sight of their raison d’être?

Yours faithfully

Jim Quixley