Chaos at school closure meeting
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by Alan Watkins
awatkins@thekmgroup.co.uk
Parents brought a council meeting to a halt as members agreed to
close an infants school.
Families of pupils at St John’s in Chatham disrupted a
meeting of the council’s cabinet.
The debate was suspended as they made repeated phone calls to
other schools in the area to back claims that there were not enough
places for the 73 children of St John’s.
Council leader Rodney Chambers said: “I’ll have to ask you to be
quiet or to leave.”
Campaigner Sam Whittington told the cabinet: “If you want to
close our school don’t lie to our people, the public or the
press.
Head teacher Diana Keating spoke with the parents and they left
the meeting.
One of the schools likely to take some of the pupils is Delce
infants which is fighting plans to merge with Delce junior. That
plan is to be referred to the schools adjudicator.
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