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April 16, 2009

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The schools’ closures row won’t go away. It has animated communities and brought people together like nothing else in recent times. Parents of all social and cultural persuasions have joined to fight Glasgow City Council’s cuts. Viewed dispassionately, it makes no sense to have 80 children rattling around in an antique building designed for 400. But it makes equally little sense to tell parents to hike it up busy, narrow roads for a mile and a half at the peak time in the morning and again at lunch time and closing time. Buggy pushing distance should not be an enforced, life threatening challenge.

Why is there such a rush to dispose of so much real estate and Victorian buildings when the market for property development is so low? By prudently waiting till the upturn in a year or two, the Council could get a better price for selling vital parts of these communities. But, of course, by waiting that long, the communities would have rumbled what was happening. Let’s just hope they’ve rumbled early enough with the pathetic attempt at ‘consultation’ to alter decisions which may have been made already behind the Council’s closed doors.

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