"Another Brick" school in protest |
Written by Matt | |
Thursday, 18 January 2007 | |
Children at Islington Green school in London, which was used back in 1979 for the kid's choir on Another Brick In The Wall from Pink Floyd's The Wall album, are staging a protest at proposed changes to their status. In the protest, they are using an amended version of the famous lyric... Islington Council is working with the City of London and City University on redeveloping Islington Green School as an Academy School. This would make it a publicly-funded independent secondary school with private sponsors - something that isn't impressing everyone. Islington Green teacher and National Union of Teachers spokesman Ken Muller told the BBC: "Our school is an improving school. It's one of the best improving schools in London so we don't know what city academies have got to offer us. Why should private sponsors be able to take over our school and run it instead of democratically-elected councillors?" As part of their protest, children from the school will repeat the performance of their forerunners, outside Islington Town Hall, with these new lyrics:
More information on the plans to convert the school can be found over at www.islington.gov.uk, and the school's own website is at www.igschool.com.
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