SCHOOL WILL BE MONSTER

4 June 2005

According to recent figures, there are around 500 students at Dylan Thomas Community School and 1,500 students at Bishop Gore. It doesn't take a genius to work out that if Dylan Thomas school is to merge with Bishop Gore there will be around 2,000 students on the Bishop Gore site.

The plan to create a mega-school at Bishop Gore will be a disaster. It will be just too big.Money might be saved by closing the smaller Dylan Thomas School but what possible educational case can be made for creating a monster school of 2,000 pupils?

Most pupils will have to be bussed to school anyway. Add around 100 teachers and that's parking and traffic chaos around Sketty every morning and afternoon .

I hope our council will think again.

Tamsin Green, Aneurin Way, Sketty Park, Swansea