epicrebel Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 THE SCHOOL STAYS. http://www.sloughexpress.co.uk/news/stoke-poges/101608/reaction-as-high-court-rules-khalsa-secondary-adademy-will-remain-in-stoke-poges.html#.V4oNGEIcq4k.facebook The truth now comes out why they didn't want the school there. “In addition to the noise and traffic imposition, the opening of this Free School has had a significant financial impact on parents, not just in Stoke Poges, but in the surrounding villages of Burnham, Iver, Wexham, Fulmer and Farnham. Parents who have lost their previous right to free home to school transport and will now forced to pay thousands of pounds per year to send their children to a school of their choosing. It is a sad day" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishadrian Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 epicrebel Thanks for posting this Always thought there was more to it than closed minds and Nimbyism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorshamRebel Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 The loss of free transport was known from the start, as they were complaining about that right from the beginning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading Rebel Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Of course every house in the country close to a school is uninhabitable and if every school wasn't built because the locals didn't want it no schools would get built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEAVY TRUCKER Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 why should i or any tax payer pay for any body elses children to go to school this is a thing that parents must consider before having children, i'm sure that there are many parents in the uk that are paying for their kids to go to school would love to have the transport of their offspring be payed for. especially in this case as many of the parents that live in stoke poges are not short of a bob or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Carpenter Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 The allied problem is that many pupils attending the local academies do not come from within the original Slough Local Education Authority catchment. In the case of one academy the figure last year was less than 30%. This puts increased pressure on schooling in Slough so why shouldn't other areas take their fair share of overall responsibility? The folk in Stoke Poges clearly felt that the Free School should have been located in Slough even though many pupils were projected to come from outside Slough; such a move would have added to the existing problems within the old catchment area. I see South Bucks Council are considering a further appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEAVY TRUCKER Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 using money that would be far better spent on other more worth while things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading Rebel Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 using money that would be far better spent on other more worth while things Instead of using other tax payers money, if they want to put in another worthless appeal perhaps the nimby's of Stoke Poges should have a whip-round and fund it themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebelVilla Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 On the other side of the coin, why should the people of Stoke Poges have a school in their village which the vast majority of the village's children will not go to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicrebel Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 On the other side of the coin, why should the people of Stoke Poges have a school in their village which the vast majority of the village's children will not go to. And a lot of the children don't go to all the schools in Slough. Who says that any kids from slough would go to that school. And mostly it was about the free travel they've lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark44 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 On the other side of the coin, why should the people of Stoke Poges have a school in their village which the vast majority of the village's children will not go to. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that it was a central point to the majority of kids who would go there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 The Khalsa Primary School is in Wexham Rd Slough.... and it is a not unreasonable assumption that the majority of children going to the Khalsa Academy in Stoke Poges will be progressing from the Primary school. So, is there any justification for objecting to the school just because they will be losing free travel to Beaconsfield or Chalfont schools? No, not in my opinion. But let's be sensible (now that it doesn't have any impact on the Club) it probably isn't reasonable for a school to be set up in South Bucks predominantly for children from Berkshire (even if it is only a mile or so over the county border). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicrebel Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 The Khalsa Primary School is in Wexham Rd Slough.... and it is a not unreasonable assumption that the majority of children going to the Khalsa Academy in Stoke Poges will be progressing from the Primary school. So, is there any justification for objecting to the school just because they will be losing free travel to Beaconsfield or Chalfont schools? No, not in my opinion. But let's be sensible (now that it doesn't have any impact on the Club) it probably isn't reasonable for a school to be set up in South Bucks predominantly for children from Berkshire (even if it is only a mile or so over the county border). Most of the kids that go to the wexham road school are bused in and not from Slough. If no kids were bused in from outside slough the need for more schools in Slough wouldn't be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebelVilla Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 So logically, it would be sensible to build the school from the area that the majority of the pupils reside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicrebel Posted July 18, 2016 Author Share Posted July 18, 2016 So logically, it would be sensible to build the school from the area that the majority of the pupils reside. Well there is no secondary schools in stoke poges so they need one, and by law they have to take a cross section of kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Ridiculous.... Stoke Poges has a total population of about 5,000. I'm not even from Stoke Poges and the absurdity of the comments are annoying me... I hope nobody from the Stoke Poges residents committee reads this forum. And maybe they do have a requirement to take a cross section of children, but they clearly market themselves as a 'Sikh Ethos School'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Carpenter Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Read my earlier comments which were published in greater detail in the local press when this issue first arose. What was the Slough Local Education Authority catchment takes a disproportionate ratio of children from outside the area including one suspects from the Stoke Poges area. When I left my senior school in 1962 the vast majority of children came from within the L.E.A. catchment and I have a school magazine from that year showing salvatore which proves that. That school is now an academy and for the year preceding when my letter was published the local intake had shrunk to 28%. So this and similar situations exert great pressure on Slough Borough Council. Perhaps if the people in Stoke Poges and South Bucks in general don't like the idea of a quote "Sikh Ethos School" they could arrange to build a school to suit there needs. Please don't tell me there is no land available given the private developments that have been allowed off Templewood Lane in recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 What was the Slough Local Education Authority catchment takes a disproportionate ratio of children from outside the area including one suspects from the Stoke Poges area. This is because it has Grammar schools with no stipulation of catchment area, and primary schools in the Slough area that teach to SAT levels which are a lower standard than the Grammar school entrance requirements. Which means that any child going to a state primary school and not receiving private tuition has virtually no chance of getting into the Slough grammar schools..... very different to the grammar school entrance rules of the 60's, 70's and 80's (and this is from first hand knowledge with myself and one of my daughters going to Langley Grammar School). What exactly is the point of Slough having good grammar schools if they are full with children outside of Slough?? South Bucks has it's own grammar schools, and the likelihood is most of the girls that pass from Stoke Poges will not be heading to Slough but to Beaconsfield and the boys to Burnham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Is this a football forum or local politics forum ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlenSTFC Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Yeah thinking the same, not sure if this topic or the rules change is my favourite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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