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The Myers Grove - Wisewood schools merge debate

should wisewood/myers merger go ahead?  

120 members have voted

  1. 1. should wisewood/myers merger go ahead?

    • No- Don't merge the schools
      11
    • Yes- Merge the schools
      52
    • No- Keep both schools open, spend the money improving both schools
      57


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Have just heard that the City Council has voted through a Lib Dem motion to stop the process of merging Wisewood and Myers Grove schools.

 

The motion was proposed by Lib Dem Steve Ayris, who was elected in May on the back of a campaign to save Wisewood School. It was supported by all 39 Lib Dem councillors, the two Greens and the Independent.

 

The Labour councillors and the lone Tory voted against, preferring Labour's proposal to proceed with the merger subject to an independent review.

 

The vote was tied 42-42, and Lord Mayor Arthur Dunworth used his casting vote to support the Lib Dem motion.

 

Council officers will therefore be instructed to immediately halt the closure plans.

 

A truly massive victory for everyone who's worked so hard to save it - well done everyone! :)

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Yay!!!!! That's great news :D

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Halted ................................ pending a new independent consultation and subsequent recommendations/report to be presented back to Full Council to determine the way forward.

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The motion was proposed by Lib Dem Steve Ayris, who was elected in May on the back of a campaign to save Wisewood School. It was supported by all 39 Lib Dem councillors, the two Greens and the Independent.

 

 

How fantastic :banana: :banana: :clap: :clap:

Its nice to see a Councillor who does what his voters ask for.

Welldone to everyone who fought hard, it shows what people power can do.

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Halted ................................ pending a new independent consultation and subsequent recommendations/report to be presented back to Full Council to determine the way forward.

 

Thats not what it says on the Lib Dem website, this is what was agreed: -

 

That this Council:

 

(a) welcomes and approves recommendation (ii) in the report, which recommends that there will be no change to catchment areas in the North West of the city;

 

(b) notes that local people in the North West have made it abundantly clear that they want their valued local community schools to remain open;

 

© therefore directs that the process to close both Wisewood and Myers Grove Secondary Schools stops immediately;

 

(d) furthermore, directs that both existing community schools on the Wisewood and Myers Grove sites remain open and that the new 14-19 Centre is located on the Myers Grove site;

 

(e) instructs that a full report is brought back to a meeting of full council within the next two months which outlines a strategy to secure the long-term future of both schools.

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Well lets just hope that Myers still gets a rebuild-plenty of space to rebuild,but where are Wisewood going to build, no room on their site.

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You've got to hand it to the mayor:thumbsup:.

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why? A majority of kids in Wisewood school are turning into scummy chav types anyway and the school doesn't seem to do anything about the idiots that are crippling the place with they're bad behaviour!

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Thats not what it says on the Lib Dem website, this is what was agreed: -

 

 

(e) instructs that a full report is brought back to a meeting of full council within the next two months which outlines a strategy to secure the long-term future of both schools.

 

I would suggest that was what I said.

 

An independant consultation will take place, a report presented to Full Council and Full Council will decide where to go from there.

 

It would be wrong to prejudge what such a report will recommend and what Council will decide to do.

Regardless of what I, you and others may wish for, this current decision does not guarantee that neither school will be closed.

 

 

The "long-term future" may still be amalgamation!

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The City Council has voted through a Lib Dem motion to stop the process of merging Wisewood and Myers Grove schools, so halting any chance of getting a new school at Myers Grove.

 

The vote was tied 42-42, and Lord Mayor Arthur Dunworth used his casting vote to support the Lib Dem motion.

 

Council officers will therefore be instructed to immediately halt the merger and rebuilding plans.

 

A truly massive blow for everyone who's worked so hard to get a new school at Myers Grove.

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I would suggest that was what I said.

 

An independant consultation will take place, a report presented to Full Council and Full Council will decide where to go from there.

 

It would be wrong to prejudge what such a report will recommend and what Council will decide to do.

Regardless of what I, you and others may wish for, this current decision does not guarantee that neither school will be closed.

 

The "long-term future" may still be amalgamation!

I've been heavily involved in this process and I can tell you categorically that it won't. :rolleyes:

 

Point e) is instructing officers to draw up a plan to keep both schools open - the details of which will be brought back to a full council meeting.

 

If you read the motion as a whole, it's unambiguous - the merger process is to be stopped and both schools will be kept open.

 

Hope that helps! :)

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It was interesting to observe that on the following debate, (on a Lib-Dem motion opposing any possibility of St Luke's hospice relocating to Norton Nurseries), the two Green councillors voted against that motion.

 

Cllr Jillian Creasy (Leader, Green Group) said she opposed that motion as it would cut off all possible future debate on the issue prior to the outcome of a review. A Labour councillor then pointed out that the Green councillors were being inconsistent - as they had also had the opportunity to defer a decision on the proposals to build a new school on the Myers Grove site, pending an independent review.

 

Voting figures were:-

For the Labour amendment to hold an independent review of the decision to build a new school: All 41 Labour concillors + 1 Conservative. (Total 42)

Against the Labour amendment: All 39 Lib-Dem councillors + 1 Independent + 2 Green. (Total 42).

The Lord Mayor then exercised his casting vote and voted against the amendment.

 

The vote was then taken on the Lib-Dem motion to oppose the building of a new school on the Myers Grove site:

For the Lib-Dem motion: All 39 Lib-Dem councillors + 1 Independent + 2 Green (Total 42).

Against the Lib-Dem motion: All 41 Labour councillors + 1 Conservative. (Total 42).

The Lord Mayor then exercised his casting vote and voted in favour of the motion.

 

Thus, the previous council decision - to build a new state of the art school on the Myers Grove site - was overturned.

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