Islington News: Schools | Parents

Publications by New Journal Enterprises

Home

Archive

Competition

Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 26 September 2008

‘City fat cats not fit to run schools’

ISLINGTON parents and teachers dressed as “fat cats” will protest outside the headquarters of an education charity today (Friday).
They claim academy sponsor Absolute Return for Kids (Ark), financed through City “risk” traders, is not fit to run schools.
Ken Muller, formerly a teacher at Islington Green School, now an academy sponsored by the Corporation of London and City University, said: “The fat cats of Wall Street and the City have shown the world they are incapable of running their own financial institutions. They are certainly not fit to preside over our children’s education.”
The protest in the Strand is organised by the Anti-Academies Alliance, a national organisation founded by Holloway School teacher Alisdair Smith which was officially recognised at this month’s TUC conference.
An alliance spokesman said: “With the global financial system in meltdown, and the homes and livelihoods of millions of people under threat, is it not time to stop handing our schools over to the people largely responsible for the disaster?”

Comment on this article.
(You must supply your full name and email address for your comment to be published)

Name:

Email:

Comment: