He seems to have left it a bit late. Parliament having taken a break until October.

By the time he gets a chance to ask any questions much discussion will have taken place in private among those who would like the academy to become reality, excluding those of us with different views.

Regardless of people's point of view on the subject, I am certain they will not take kindly to be treated in such a cavalier fashion
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In his last letter Mr Loughton claimed that academies exclude no more students than state schools.

What I wonder are his sources? Could it be that he was talking numbers rather than rates?

At the moment fewer students are educated in academies than state schools, so it follows that the exclusion numbers will be lower.

If Mr Loughton had been at the meeting I attended at Southwick Community Centre recently (he was inviteded along with the other academy apologists but none attended) he would have heard that academies in fact exclude at twice the rate of state schools.

If Mr Loughton is to bandy statistics let him do it with more clarity. As it is he is simply insulting the intelligence of every Shoreham resident he expects to accept his assertions unquestioningly.

Alan Heselden
Brunswick Road
Shoreham

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