Thursday 21 July 2011

Etz Chaim School approved last night

To no ones great surprise, Barnet Councils planning committee yesterday approved the use of the site of Mill Hill Garden Centre for conversion to Etz Chaim Free School.

I suppose it is ironic to note that today the Jewish Chronicle reports that there may be too many places at Jewish Primary Schools - http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/51993/sinai-asked-take-non-jewish-pupil. As Etz Chaim will be taking up to 50% of non Jewish pupils, I suppose it won't struggle for numbers. I wonder what contingency  plans the school has made should they have to provide an education to a non religious majority, should the Jewish places be undersubscribed?

Hat Tip to Daniel Hope at the Barnet Bugle for drawing my attention to the story.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Always nice of you to pay attention to the vibrant twitter feed at @barnetbugle.

Not sure the Bugle posting the link to the JC article, in isolation, is quite the same as us 'drawing it to your attention'. That gives the slight impression we were tipping you off for a story, which would be a bit cartel like behaviour!

Glad to see that some investigative journalism is alive at the Barnet Eye and you pulled two independent stories together to make one.

Anyway, must get back to some video editing. Follow @barnetbugle on twitter to see the video when it is ready.

Rog T said...

Dan,

You drew it to my intention,unlike some people I try and give credit where due

Comedy Genius said...

The article on the JC.com refers to one non-jewish child at Sinai school. This is a non-story in my opinion. Sinai like other 'Jewish' schools are open to all. There is no quesion on the application form asking religion.

Anonymous said...

@Rog,

I know you are a stickler for manners and doing the right thing. Are you are not indeed Mill Hill's very own Mensch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch ?

It was very correct manners for you to highlight that you picked up the JC story from the Bugle's active twitter feed @barnetbugle

But you mustn't be so bashful in not taking all of the credit for marrying the story to the Etz Chaim School application. That was your own unique journalistic wizardry. Wouldn't want your readers to think that you were 'fed' the story by others!