YOU recently reported Skipton Girls’ High School is engaged in a consultation exercise before deciding if it should increase its intake number by another 30 or so girls – Head slams expansion (Keighley News, December 8).
South Craven School had stated its concerns.
SGHS is clearly a good school, partly because it has a creative headteacher, excellent teachers and a highly selective intake as it selects the pupils based on ability – only accepting the top performers.
If they are so convinced of the value of the school, perhaps they should change their admissions policy and accept girls based purely on geographic location. In this way, the school would be able to offer a high-class education to a wider range of girls.
Dr Cummings, the head at South Craven, would not be able to object and both schools would then operate on a level playing field.
Oh, but of course SGHS would then be a comprehensive school and we all know they are not as acceptable to parents – notwithstanding that South Craven School is a very successful comprehensive school, enabling students to go to Oxbridge and other universities and become plumbers and electricians, teachers, doctors, architects, engineers and generally high-quality citizens.
JOHN TOMLINSON Kelbrook
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