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To: Sarah Jane Moffat
Stop Cuts to Dumfries and Galloway Education Provision!
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Please sign this petition to show Dumfries and Galloway Council that their inadequate, speedy, and vague consultation on cuts to essential services in our education provision are opposed.
As educators you are the true and informed professionals in this process.
We need to be clear that these proposal if brought to fruition will permanently damage the education and services of the children of Dumfries and Galloway.
As educators you are the true and informed professionals in this process.
We need to be clear that these proposal if brought to fruition will permanently damage the education and services of the children of Dumfries and Galloway.
Why is this important?
Dumfries and Galloway is consulting the public on a range of proposals. In the past 16 years, the Council has cut £13 million from its budget and is now seeking to cut a further £35 million in the next three years.
Most of these cuts are aimed at the Education Department.
Proposals include consultation on the closure of 58 nursery, primary and secondary schools, axing the instrumental music service, and cuts to essential education workers.
Years of under-resourcing have already created workload, pupil equity, violence and aggression issues that are unsustainable in schools.
Over 40% of learners now have some form of additional support need. The introduction of the presumption of mainstreaming and the failure to appropriately resource this in schools has led to an increase in violence and aggression against teachers and between pupils.
If realised, the recent budget cuts would have ramifications for the quality of education in Dumfries and Galloway and will hit some of the poorest children, the hardest.
We are seriously concerned about the potential for the widening of the poverty-related attainment gap in Dumfries and Galloway.
Most of these cuts are aimed at the Education Department.
Proposals include consultation on the closure of 58 nursery, primary and secondary schools, axing the instrumental music service, and cuts to essential education workers.
Years of under-resourcing have already created workload, pupil equity, violence and aggression issues that are unsustainable in schools.
Over 40% of learners now have some form of additional support need. The introduction of the presumption of mainstreaming and the failure to appropriately resource this in schools has led to an increase in violence and aggression against teachers and between pupils.
If realised, the recent budget cuts would have ramifications for the quality of education in Dumfries and Galloway and will hit some of the poorest children, the hardest.
We are seriously concerned about the potential for the widening of the poverty-related attainment gap in Dumfries and Galloway.