To wonder why mn aren't bothered by the school budget cuts.

[minifingerz]

Posted on chat asking if parents are concerned about the coming cuts to school budgets, and how much their child's school is losing (or whether it will be one of the few to gain).

My dc's school is losing about 1K per child. Class sizes increasing significantly, school dinners will increase in cost, support staff being sacked right, left and centre. Some schools will have to get rid of almost all their TA's.

The cuts are really radical and coming at a time of big change in regard to GCSE's. I'm really concerned about it and I wonder why other people are not.

BTW I agree that schools outside of big cities have been historically underfunded. Just don't agree with robbing Peter to pay Paul. Surely the answer is to increase the overall budget for schools so that all schools have what they need to provide a good education for children?

[Piratefairy78]

I've heard of it but only through being a governor at my children's school. We live in area that was been woefully under funded for a long time whilest neighbouring counties receive much more. Although we are affected by the cuts it's not as drastic as elsewhere. Our MP knows what's going on as he has visited our school several times over the past couple of years. It's about time every school was funded in the same way. One of our governors worked it out once that if our school was elsewhere (approx 150miles and 3 counties away) then our funding would increase by 1/3!!!

[PinkPancakes]

If you want to see the numbers for how any school is affected go to //www.schoolscuts.org.uk

Please write to your MP and take action on social media (even if your own DC school is not drastically affected..) because for many schools only just about keeping afloat financially these cuts are going to be a total disaster. Don't be fooled into thinking those other schools have had it too good for long- that is not fairness.
ALL schools should be properly funded and that certainly doesn't involve making budget cuts.

[jumpingthroughpuddles]

It's not really the funding formula that's the problem - despite the manifesto commitment the overall funding is falling and costs are rising. Almost all schools are losing out. Govt own data shows that funding is falling and pupil no.s are rising