John's Cat wrote:
> It's a bit more complicated because the demographics of areas of housing tend to change with time.
> So, new estate tends to have lots of young families and a school. After a few years, young
> families are all grown up so the catchment area grows to keep the school numbers up.
That's almost, but not quite, what's happened here.
New housing a couple of miles round the ring road houses a lot of young families, and there isn't a
school closer.
However, the older housing also houses a lot of young families, whose children will now be unable to
go to the nearest school. To expect children who live 200 yards from a perfectly good school to go
to a school a few miles away is ludicrous.
The real irony is that not so long ago one of the schools was threatened with closure, due to
declining student numbers IIRC. I can't remember which one, and I've recycled the paper with that
story in it.
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