BHANGEELAAR! campaign for a democratic Tower Hamlets tells the Guardian today to stop perpetuating excuses for failing schools...

The central point about schooling, education and life opportunities [SELO] [in so far as those can be measurably affected by the supposed choice supposedly available to parents and guardians] is missing from your piece. It is to do with the practical relevance of locally expressed ‘democracy’. For decades, the propaganda by either side of the so-called class divide on SELO has been dominated by bogus factors. Distance and catchment and all that.
The missing factor has been the role of the Local Education Authorities in monitoring and auditing the service being delivered in each and every school.
The rigour and the ardour that ought to have been evident in every school regardless of distance, demography have been denied by all the familiar, slightly professionally and careeristically active parties that keep coming on stage whenever the ‘issue’ gets on the topical angst list every so often.
When was the last time that a serious and sustained and conclusive examination was conducted of what the thousands of listed governors do on the school governing body facades?
From start to finish, the selection of the majority of the governors is as undemocratic, antidemocratic and antagonistic to accountability by and in a school as is the case with the counterparts routines about local councillors. It is time that those two layers got the serious and the sustained scrutiny that they must be treated to before another word is repeated about post code, catchment and all the rest of the diversions.
For those diversions themselves represent the layers of Royal Mail and the law and order agencies who too are gloriously [!] allowed exemption from audit which then combine to make up the sinking states on so many estates that also ‘house’ so many schools that are in the process every term being failed by the failure of democracy in every single borough.
Generations are being degenerated through this deficit in democracy in the schools!
1138 Hrs
Monday
28 February 2011
BHANGEELAAR!
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN ELECTED EXECUTIVE MAYOR IN TOWER HAMLETS