Minister’s new friend
turns out to be a thorn in his side :
"Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, did not realise that Becky Grocott, a 17-year-old head girl at a Roman Catholic comprehensive, would take the opportunity to lobby him about a threat to close her college.
The MP says that he accepted Miss Grocott’s request to add her name to his list of friends, mistakenly thinking that she was somebody he knew. She then sent Mr Knight a flurry of messages about her school in Stoke-on-Trent. As part of a planned reorganisation, the 17 senior schools in the area are to be shut and only 12 reopened. Existing staff will have reapply for their jobs.
Miss Grocott has now learnt that her specialist maths and computing school, St Thomas More Catholic College, will reopen. But she has continued to lobby the minister about the staff’s fate."
The minister probably thought she was related to Lord Grocott.
What an inspiration for anyone who is trying to save Catholic schools or Churches!
"Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, did not realise that Becky Grocott, a 17-year-old head girl at a Roman Catholic comprehensive, would take the opportunity to lobby him about a threat to close her college.
The MP says that he accepted Miss Grocott’s request to add her name to his list of friends, mistakenly thinking that she was somebody he knew. She then sent Mr Knight a flurry of messages about her school in Stoke-on-Trent. As part of a planned reorganisation, the 17 senior schools in the area are to be shut and only 12 reopened. Existing staff will have reapply for their jobs.
Miss Grocott has now learnt that her specialist maths and computing school, St Thomas More Catholic College, will reopen. But she has continued to lobby the minister about the staff’s fate."
The minister probably thought she was related to Lord Grocott.
What an inspiration for anyone who is trying to save Catholic schools or Churches!
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