I hear that Littlehampton Comm-unity School and Boundstone Community College are to become academies, with our own King's Manor Community College to follow if all goes according to plan.

Part of the process is a so-called public consultation exercise. If the Bound-stone experience is anything to go by, it will be more like a public relations exercise on behalf of the sponsors, the Woodard Corporation.

At its meeting, only questions with convenient answers were given anything like an informative response.

Another part of the public consultation is that residents are invited, privately, to air any concerns to a firm of consultants paid by West Sussex County Council to get rid of these schools and, with them, the responsibility to provide an education for local youngsters.

This is an insult to the intelligence of every Shoreham resident. Our representatives at County Hall should be ashamed that they are bending the knee so meekly to a discredited government whose days are surely numbered.

Call me cynical, but is this a bunch of local Tories unnecessarily following a Labour central government line so that, when it all goes horribly wrong (as it undoubtedly will), they can go and blame it on the other side?

Alan Heselden
Brunswick Road
Shoreham

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