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Catchment Changes may create divide
The Cardiff school council has proposed catchment changes to the areas that provide students for the top rated Fitzalan High School and the low ranking Cantonian High School according to Wales Online.
With Welsh assembly elections due in May, parents, governors, and Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan and Cardiff West AM Mark Drakeford have all spoken out against these changes which have “potentially unwelcome implications for social and racial cohesion” according to a letter sent to the Cardiff Council cabinet member for education Sarah Merry.
Wales Online reports that the Cardiff Council will meet on March 10 to decide whether the changes will be implemented, in which case they will start in September of 2017. Those opposed to the changes believe that the changes to the catchment will racially and ethnically divide students by flowing mostly white students into Cantonian and ethnic minorities into Fitzalan. This threatens the diversity of the education at both schools and the diversity of the community which will be severely separated.
Solicitor Nasia Sarwar told Wales Online, “Should the proposals go ahead, communities will be ghettoised with black ethnic minorities on one side and white ethnicity on the other.” The potential segregation of the different
The Cardiff Council’s proposed changes have also been criticized for the lack of a concrete plan outlining how these catchment changes will actually improve the failing Cantonian High School. Without proper proof that these catchment changes will make any sort of positive change these proposed changes face an exorbitant amount of opposition and criticism from the community and its leaders.
If these catchment changes are put in place by the Cardiff Council the divisions created will cause social, cultural, and racial consequences for the students that will reverberate throughout their community.
Welsh Assembly elections will take place on the 5th of May to elect all 60 members of the Senedd.
Original Story: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/politicians-school-governors-join-mounting-10954245
Mary Schlichte