Parents town-wide were asked to choose three preferred schools last November for their children. Most put "any decent school" at number one. However, Bournemouth council has said that it does not have any places at decent schools available due to lack of any schools which fall into that category.
Maria Stringer, whose son Damon will be attending the Bishop of Winchester school next year, said she wasn't as happy as she could be: "I suppose it's the luck of the draw. We did ask to go to a school where children could, oh, what's it called...ah, 'learn'. That's it, learn. But I suppose this is good enough. I hear that they are good at chemistry, and the students have a good knowledge of a wide range of substances."
A typical chemistry lesson at Bishop of Winchester school
Her thoughts were echoed by Tanya Malvern, whose daughter Emily will be attending Glenmoor school in Winton: "I'm slightly disappointed that Emily no longer has a future, but on the plus side, she doesn't have far to walk to school. It gives her less opportunity to be savagely beaten by the older girls."
Bournemouth Council's education chief, Mark Anstey, said that the council had not got the funding for good schools, and instead concentrated on putting flowerbeds and new tennis courts on the crap ones: "We figured that rather than one school where there's a good learning environment, great discipline and enthusiastic teachers, students here would rather be able to look at a nice rose bush while their teacher throws books at them."
"It never did me any harm."
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