Maharishi Free School loses bid to open in Richmond (From Your Local Guardian)

• "Sorry if you felt that I was directing wrath at you, no wrath intended! It is just that people take the Council's forecasts at face value when it doesn't take much number crunching and investigation into the risks to see that the chances of people being left without local school places in the near future are high, irrespective of the quality issue. Plenty of those parents west south and north of the Heath Road railway bridge won't be able to move or go private. I agree we need to focus on why TA is only making "satisfactory" progress in it's efforts to improve (and more crucially why the leadership is only satisfactory) when Richmond Park Academy got a much more inspiring assessment of it's progress and leadership. I hope TA improves and becomes a valued option for your son, assuming you are in it's catchment. In fact I have friends in Whitton who enjoyed their school years there, we forget that whilst the school may have a high proportion of problematic pupils, it doesn't mean that every pupil has a poor experience. However if all the schools were of the quality of Orleans and Teddington then all those parents all over the borough who go private because they feel they have no other choice would send their children to them and, if the percentage of parents going private was just the average of the top ten most affluent boroughs in London, it would need two new five form entry secondaries to accommodate them! My wrath is focused on a schools strategy that has left so many parents in this borough feeling they have no choice of acceptable local schools, both at primary and secondary level, taking for granted that a fair proportion of them will quietly go away (move or go private), breaking up the communities that have formed over years, and that has now focused it's resources on the one part of the community that always had additional choices, at the expense of my local community."
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