COUNCILLOR John Howson is right to say that governments over recent decades have “never really got to grips” with regional distortions in the housing market.
Indeed, it must be wondered how both the the River Learning Trust’s Swan School-to-be and the Cheney School Academy Trust’s Barton Park Primary-to-be will manage to find staff.
Further, Cheney School is set to expand to allow for future admissions from Barton Park Primary, so new staff will also be required at Cheney.
In an ideal world all teachers and other school staff would live within easy walking and cycling distance to and from school, but the world is not ideal and many Oxford city-school teachers are among Oxford’s 46,000 commuters, not by choice, but of necessity.
We are living in a dark age for housing in the UK. We are also in a dark age for transport/air and noise pollution in the UK.
As for education, the alarming freeschool nightmare is very much with us this Halloween.
BRUCE ROSS-SMITH
Bowness Avenue, Headington
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