Sir – Your report (August 16) Schools must choose between rival council schemes beggars belief. To have the city and county councils operating rival Key Stage 1 school improvement schemes in Oxford smacks of competitiveness and turf wars between authorities, rather than a real concern for children’s development or school improvement. Councillor Curran from Oxford City Council is quoted as suggesting that the city’s £1.4m project will focus on ten schools and that this would leave another 35 in the city which could be part of the county scheme.
Doesn’t he realise that Oxford has a very mobile population and that it is quite common for children to move from one school to another both within and beyond the city?
Rather than improving standards in schools this risks damaging children’s chances further, entrenching poor performance and wasting council tax-payers’ money.
Martin Stott, (Former parent governor, Cheney School ), Oxford
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