Sir – As someone who had the pleasure of working for the local authority in the 1960s and 1970s I have followed, with some horror the correspondence from parents and governors concerning a proposed Academy, and I wonder what on earth is going on.
There has been a deafening silence both from the county council and, even more strangely, from the director of education whose views and advice to the council and to the schools concerned should be of paramount importance.
I cannot imagine such directors as Alan Chorlton and Tim Brighouse to have allowed this confused situation to arise and cause such understandable concern to many East Oxford parents.
The council is fortunate in having Michael Waine, a former distinguished Oxfordshire primary head as its cabinet member for schools; but he is a Conservative politician, a party which views LEAs with suspicion.
Does the director of education support the establishment of an Academy for 3-18? The Peers model is not proving encouraging.
Martin Sheldon, Headington
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