1 February 2008
Battery Cage Kids
Posted by Kate under: Rural Issues .
£3551 to educate a rural child in Shropshire, £7089 to educate the same child in the City of London. Why? Because these large urban schools need metal detectors and school psychiatrists maybe?
When this kind of funding differential exists it doesn’t matter how many times the likes of Jim Knight say “Councils should not be closing rural schools” because at the end of the day money is more influential than rhetoric.When are this government going to wake up and realise that in the same way large scale, max production farming is not good for the welfare of animals, large scale, max production schooling is not good for the welfare of children. We’re just starting to get rid of battery hens in this country, lets not replace them with battery children.I plan to continue lobbying the government for fairer funding for rural services and a choice in the way we educate our children. Thank you to all who are supporting the save our rural schools campaign.