SCHOOL IS SUCH A HELP

10 June 2005

I spent 18 months visiting schools in the Swansea area before deciding on the right secondary education for my 11-year-old son who has Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism). He does not cope well socially, but I wish in my heart that education director Richard Parry and his colleagues could see the difference Dylan Thomas school has made to his self-esteem and his ability to learn things we as a family thought he would never grasp!

Parents at Bishop Gore chose to send their children there in the same way that I and many others chose to send our children to Dylan Thomas.

I urge the council to rethink the proposal to close the school.

Concerned Parent, Penlan, Swansea