09/04/2008
Donaghadee School Threatened
As well as dealing with growing uncertainty over the replacement for the 11+ Transfer Test, a proposal to close a school on the Ards Peninsula in County Down has prompted an angry response.
Fears over the future of Donaghadee High School - attended by almost 250 children - have been raised with news that it could shut in August next year.
The South Eastern Education Board already wants to stop new pupils joining this September.
A consultation period will take place from the end of this month after the proposals have been published.
The local Assembly Member Alex Easton described the possible closure as "madness".
"To take away a school that has a distinguished role of education and learning is to tear at the heart of the town of Donaghadee," he said.
"I will be setting down questions to the Education Minister Caitriona Ruane seeking to have this decision reversed.
"There is also the issue of integrated status to be considered. Any proposal that retains quality education in Donaghadee for the secondary sector deserves the fullest and most detailed consideration," he said.
(BMcC)
Fears over the future of Donaghadee High School - attended by almost 250 children - have been raised with news that it could shut in August next year.
The South Eastern Education Board already wants to stop new pupils joining this September.
A consultation period will take place from the end of this month after the proposals have been published.
The local Assembly Member Alex Easton described the possible closure as "madness".
"To take away a school that has a distinguished role of education and learning is to tear at the heart of the town of Donaghadee," he said.
"I will be setting down questions to the Education Minister Caitriona Ruane seeking to have this decision reversed.
"There is also the issue of integrated status to be considered. Any proposal that retains quality education in Donaghadee for the secondary sector deserves the fullest and most detailed consideration," he said.
(BMcC)
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