The strange tale of the illegal school

Oddest story in the Edgware Times this week is the strange tale of the illegal school in Golders Green. It seems that it is a converted house in a residential street, it's had rotten OFSTEAD reports and the effects of noise, traffic etc is driving the neighbours mad.

I'm all for provision of extra school places in Barnet, which is why I supported the JCOSS proposal (even though the environmental effects were bad). It's just this one seems to be the wrong school in the wrong place. I'd have thought that the primary mission of any school is to teach neighbourlyness and to get the kids to obey the laws of the land.

This one seems to be sending all the wrong messages to it's kids. I sympathise with parents who feel they have special needs for their kids. I just think that we owe it to them to set a good example and saying "we don't like the rules so it's OK to break them" is a not a great way to bring kids up. They should find a more suitable location.