Save our School campaign seen as counter to ILEA threat

REGARDING your issue, of April 2 on the ILEA's suggestion for the future of St George's School one could form the impression from remarks attributed to me that the governors are more concerned to preserve the school as a separate institution than to consider whether, for the future, it can provide the same service to the local community that it has forthe past 26 years.
This, of course, would be a wrong impression.
What is of great concern is that the governors and staff have been driven to adopt a "Save our School" campaign because the Westminster Diocesan Schools Committee is allowing the initiative in the matter of reorganisation to pass to the I LEA.
There are, 1 think, 15 Catholic secondary schools across divisions one to three of the ILEA. There-is no single school whose governors can say that its future is not in some way determined by plans for the future of all the others.
By agreeing a reduction of form entries across the whole diocese but then allowing a reorganisation division by division, the Schools Committee is creating far more uncertainty for parents than need be the case.
Ian N. Tulloch Headmaster, St George's School, Maida Vale, W9 1RB