Carlton school

• IN pre-Covid-19 days, some months after Camden Council officers came to Carlton school to announce its closure proposals, pupils’ parents’, staff and community residents’ reactions were sought.

They were sent to the council and here just are a few of them:

– It’s a wonderful school that does so much to improve our neighbourhood!

– It serves as a model of multi-cultural background and teaches it

– It is amazing school, which provides a fantastic education to some of the borough’s most deprived communities. To lose Carlton will be a catastrophe.

– This school has built up a reputation within the Gospel Oak area – a positive resource within an area desperately in need.

– Most of the kids round here go to Carlton. Think of the community disruption

Carlton school is at the heart of the GO community. It’s a good school – Ofsted, it supports all its students and their families. It would devastate us if Carlton were to close.

Why do Camden hate GO? The threat to the Dome, and our arts project? We may be a poor, deprived area but we are still people with children. We need support, not attack

Eight months later the council published its detailed proposals and we wanted to check if the above views, not admittedly the full total (there were well over 100) had changed.

We proposed that the council held a ballot of parents and carers. So far they have refused without giving any reason.

MICK FARRANT,
NW5