Staffordshire School Closure: GCSE Students Face Repeating Year

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Link: Staffordshire school closure: GCSE students face repeating year [bBC News]

 

Scores of GCSE and A-level pupils face having to repeat an entire academic year after their school decided to fold midway through their course.

 

Abbots Bromley School announced in March it would shut on 5 July unless a buyer could be found.

 

The fee-paying, mixed site in Staffordshire says it has a funding crisis, and a purchase is not forthcoming.

 

Angry parents say it leaves students high and dry as exams loom.

 

Children in years 10 and 12 are halfway through their two-year GCSE and A-level programmes respectively, and look set to need new schools to complete their studies.

 

According to parents, that is proving difficult as pupils are struggling to find local alternatives that offer courses with the same exam board.

 

Without a match to studies already under way, they say pupils will have to start over instead and repeat years 10 and 12...

 

Thoughts with the parents, students, and staff.

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You'd think they would close the school after those exams.

 

The trust that runs my school closed another school and kept the year 11s and 13s on till end of exams whilst they reschooled the rest.

 

Also questions have got to be asked as it's a fee paying school!!

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You'd think they would close the school after those exams.

 

The trust that runs my school closed another school and kept the year 11s and 13s on till end of exams whilst they reschooled the rest.

 

Also questions have got to be asked as it's a fee paying school!!

If they are a private school but have no money they have little choice.

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But where did it all go?

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But where did it all go?

 

Good question, but many independents are operating on very tight budgets. They don’t have endowments dating back to the fifteenth century, have to pay VAT on everything, fees barely cover their costs and they are over-staffed by maintained school standards in order to provide the class sizes and range of subjects that paying parents expect.

Edited June 29, 2019 by elsiegee40