WHAT do you think on this issue?

why do you agree on the merger?

why do you not want the merger?

I have not got any kids but i still do not want this to happen because my mum was taught there and so was i and my brother and sister so it would be a bad thing because it would be to far for people to travel and also seems like there will be more pupils to a class TERRIBLE!!

Well, the judge has looked at the case and denied SOCS a judicial review.

SOCS have now said that they will apply for an oral hearing to try to overturn the judges decision.

Hope it works out.

i think we should all send letters , emails to our council and just bombard them with letters etc tell your m8s , your familys etc
help save the school NOW!!!!!!

as stated before the parents and other folks WILL FIGHT to the very end on this merger issue!!

THE S.O.C.S FIGHT GOES ON!!!

The legal fight is continuing, do not believe people that say it is all over and the merger will definetely go ahead.

So now the traffic report has been done and its been said there will be a 90% increase in traffic around malin bridge!!!! (A CASE OF PARENTS TOLD YOU SO)

air pollution is above average at the present time!! and any increase in traffic will not be good long term for any child in that area!!! so does this stop the merger????

NO the council just want to push this thru!!!

and reading the results (league tables) wisewood is NOW 8TH in sheffield!!!

This is the reaction from the council " ermmmm hmmmmm "

"SHEFFIELD BLACKMAILED OVER TWO SCHOOL SOLUTION

The Labour Minister for Schools has issued a threat to Sheffield over the move to overturn the merger of Wisewood and Myers Grove Schools in favour of a two school solution.

Today the Minister for Schools, Jim Knight MP, refused to rule out Sheffield losing millions of investment for other Sheffield schools if the Council went ahead with the two school solution. The move came despite a commitment from the Council to fund the extra £25m needed to deliver two schools.

The delegation, which included the leader of Council, the Cabinet member and local Hillsborough Councillors, outlined the preferred solution for local people. They highlighted the way people voted at the last local elections and raised questions that one new school may not be able to cope with the predicted increase in pupil numbers in the future.

Cllr Paul Scriven, Liberal Democrat Leader of Sheffield City Council, said: “I find it totally unacceptable that the Government is blackmailing us in this way. We have come up with an alternative option that would be funded by the Council, yet we have been threatened with funding for other schools being withdrawn if we go ahead. I suspect that this is the work of local Labour MPs who have clearly been working behind the scenes.”

Cllr Joe Taylor, Liberal Democrat councillor for Hillsborough, said: “I’m angry and disappointed that the Minister has chosen not to listen despite us outlining an alternative two school solution and which has clear support form local people and takes into account the true pupil numbers picture. This issue is turning into local people versus the bureaucrats, and I’m firmly backing local people.”

The news comes after the local Labour Party, including all five Sheffield Labour MPs, expressed their opposition to the two school solution. The Liberal Democrat leadership on the Council will now consider their options.

Lib Dems still plan to meet with the proposing group for the merged school in order to ask them to revoke their plans and back the two school solution. The proposing group could refuse and take the battle to the courts which would provide another problem in delivering a two school solution.

Cllr Andrew Sangar, Liberal Democrat Cabinet member for Children’s Services and Lifelong Learning, said: -

“Clearly we will now have to talk to the local communities involved and consider our options in light of this development which changes the picture. We have to recognise that there are some significant hurdles to overcome, most of which are being put up by the Labour Party.”

“One of these hurdles is the proposing group who could provide a lengthily legal block . We will be seeking an official response from the group and I hope they choose to back local peoples preferred option.”"

THE STAR OPINION


Contradictions by Government



JUST a couple of days after one Government minister, Hazel Blears, said she wanted the public to have more say over their future, another minister - Jim Knight - has firmly snubbed the views of the Hillsborough community.
Almost to a man, they had argued in favour of saving their local Wisewood secondary school, which is destined to be merged with poorer-performing neighbouring school, Myers Grove.

But even when the ruling Lib Dem group on Sheffield City Council me up with an imaginative funding option, which could have ensured the city's new school building programme would remain on track, Mr Knight stubbornly refused to budge.

Indeed, his immediate rejection of the suggestion leads to the opinion that he had made up his mind even before yesterday's meeting with local councillors had started.

At least the public can take (albeit, cold) comfort from the fact that Labour's interpretation of consultation has not changed from the days when parents of the doomed school were invited to public meetings to be led to believe that their opinions over the future of the two schools actually mattered - when in fact there was not a scrap of hope that their views would make a difference.

The decision had been taken for a merge and the so-called consultation process was a sham.

What is even more irritating is that it took a local election and change of local government before officials could be directed to do what they had been asked to do some months ago.

During their time in opposition of a hung council, the Lib Dems had won a vote calling for a rethink of the merger proposal. Officers were instructed to find an alternative solution.

Instead, they came back with a response from regional education supremos which amounted to little more than blackmail: go ahead with the proposal or you will miss out on millions for other school rebuild schemes in the city. Now we see that an alternative was available - and one which certainly deserved some consideration rather than an outright dismissal.

But that's all we have come to expect from our knee-jerk Government, where one minister contradicts another.
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communities new all along about the head of wisewood would get the job of the new school!! its all one big sham!!!

link to merger thread on sheffield forum

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=374149