AINSDALE’S schools face a further shake-up as pupil numbers continue to decline.
This week the Visiter reports St John Stone School is to shut - much to the distress of parents.
The Catholic Archdiocese will close the primary in September 2008, with children moving to Our Lady of Lourdes Primary in Birkdale.
The news that another much-loved school is to be stripped from Ainsdale has left parents demanding answers to why yet another top class establishment is allowed to shut.
It comes less than a month after angry parents criticised the decision to push ahead with the closure of Ainsdale Hope despite the Sandringham Road school, earmarked for closure this summer, recently topping the Government exam table for Sefton.
Education officials say the number of primary school pupils in Sefton has plummeted due to population changes in the area.
They say a “federation� between Our Lady of Lourdes and the Meadow Lane school is the best option.
But it is no comfort to parents who believe in the Catholic faith and question whether the move with jeopardise their children’s Catholic education.
And, once again, what the parents and children ask for falls on deaf ears.
The Liverpool Catholic Archdiocese tells us it will not disrupt the children’s education and only time will tell the true extent of this latest planned closure.
Meanwhile, the Visiter is the first to report that Kingswood College will not share the same fate - the school has been saved.
As headteacher Eric Borowski said to hundreds of pupils: “The term started with bad news and has ended with good news� - it could have been a very different story.
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