I WAS interested to see your advertisement feature about the future of education in Wyre Forest.

According to county council member Stephen Clee at the Cabinet Meeting on April 17, he would not want to have a child of his educated in the “new classrooms” referred to in the article.

These “nissen huts and portable portakabins,” as he described them, were only necessary due to the fact that the county council decided to reorganise education in the area without actually having the funds to complete the job.

The council has also failed to mention the traffic problems and disruption (especially to pupils at Bewdley High School) caused by the reorganisation. But the council maintains that its action will “raise standards.”

However, the biggest irony was contained in the final paragraph, where it speaks of using “computers and technology to assist pupils learning and to personalise the way they work,” and talks of planning for the next 30 years.

It does not mention that part of this plan for Wyre Forest is its proposal to close Lickhill Primary School, a national award-winning school for teaching and learning in ICT (Becta, November 2006).

The facilities for the school’s pupils will not improve as they are squeezed into an oversized, expanded school on a site which is too small and forced to share facilities, possibly in mixed-year classes, with unfamiliar staff and pupils.

The council will also close their excellent extended care facilities (breakfast, after-school and holiday clubs) and has absolutely no intention at all of replacing this care.

Judging by its performance in the reorganisation and the appalling way it has handled the Lickhill situation, I would be very worried if the council was about to embark on a programme to “improve” any school in the area.

GRAEME HARVEY Parent of a Year 2 Pupil at Lickhill Primary School, Bewdley Road North, Stourport