No primary school academy in Lewisham!
Leila Galloway from “Deptford Says No to Tidemill Academy” spoke to Duncan Morrison. My parents are both educationalists and I work as a senior lecturer in higher education. I have been doing a post-graduate course in Philosophy at Middlesex University and was involved in the campaign to stop the closure of the Philosophy department there. I have two daughters — eight and eleven years old — at Tidemill. I think it is morally wrong to privatise education and a huge social experiment. What we see now is the increasing commodification of education. When Mark Elms, the head of Tidemill, had been...