Some Brighton and Hove councillors seem to have a very short memory. In 1999, East Brighton was declared an "Education Action Zone", in recognition of the challenges the area faced in ensuring the children of East Brighton received a decent education.
Since then, the school serving the area (COMART) has been closed. None of this was mentioned in the report about the review of the schools admissions policy.
The children of East Brighton deserve better.
The review of the admissions policy was an opportunity to attempt to secure an even spread of children from all backgrounds in the Brighton and Hove area and to bring to an end the polarisation between schools perceived as good schools and those seen as ghettos.
Instead of viewing it as an opportunity, the councillors saw it as a problem. It could have been so different.
-Jill Whittaker, Church Place, Brighton
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