Interesting piece of spin in the Daily Mail last Saturday when it reported that hundreds of children have no primary school place with the term already started as the recent baby boom has triggered an admissions crisis.
Thousands of other children are having to be taught in makeshift classrooms because of the overspill, which has been further increased by a recession-fuelled exodus from fee-paying private schools.
Councils in many parts of the country, including London and Birmingham, say applications for places are still being received.
Yet even some parents who applied in good time have yet to be allocated a school for their child.
Brent, in North West London, for example, has 210 four-year-olds still without a reception class place but only 24 vacancies in schools. The council is preparing to offer places in children’s centres if necessary.
Between them, councils including Ealing, Tower Hamlets, Harringey, Merton, Havering, Camden and Hammersmith and Fulham – all in London – as well as Kingston-upon-Thames in Greater London and Birmingham have hundreds of pupils yet to be placed: many of them late applicants.
Meanwhile officials in Newham, South East London, are considering putting four classes in a church hall following a sharp rise in children seeking places this year.
Hundreds of other schools across the country are using temporary prefabricated buildings on their own sites to accommodate additional pupils or are starting to construct permanent new classrooms.
In Hampshire, a school known for its eco-credentials, St Bede’s Primary, in Winchester, is seeking to concrete over a pond to accommodate a temporary classroom to cope with soaring pupil numbers.
Meanwhile, in Brighton, temporary classrooms are being purchased at a cost of £125,000 each.
In Leicestershire, Lady Jane Grey Primary, in Groby, gained emergency planning consent for a temporary classroom on its site.
Head Michael Fitzgerald said: ‘The school is facing a very difficult situation – there isn’t a spare cupboard in the building.’
Leeds is increasing capacity at 16 primaries from this month while in Bristol, six schools are gaining 22 temporary classrooms.
Birmingham is expanding nine schools to create an extra 330 places this month. It will need an additional 3,000 by 2020.
In many areas, schools have agreed to accept ‘bulge’ classes – an extra reception class which continues through the school.
They are meant to be a one-off but some schools have already taken them for two or three years running.
The Coalition has acknowledged the shortage of primary places is now ‘critical’ and claims the previous Labour government failed to make adequate preparations for the extra pupils despite warnings.
More than 1,000 primary schools have closed since 1999 amid accusations that some areas have taken a ‘short term’ view of likely demand.
Education Secretary Michael Gove plans to move cash from frozen secondary school building projects into providing primary places.
But the Mail’s survey of local education authorities reveals that many schools need huge sums of money to meet future demand. A spokesman for Kingston warned it would need as much as £70million.
Official figures show the number of babies born in 2006 – and now starting school – was the highest since 1993, with birth rates expected to continue to rise at least until 2018.
Latest projections suggest that primary school pupil numbers will rise by more than 500,000 in just eight years to 4,526,000, reaching their highest level since the 1970s.
The equivalent of more than 2,000 extra primary schools will be needed to cope, at a time of severe public spending cuts.
While classes for children in the first two years of school are limited in law to 30, teaching groups for older primary pupils could balloon as staff are diverted to teach the new influx of pupils.
In the meantime, pupils caught up in the crisis face being taught in overcrowded classes or travelling miles to their nearest school, and being split from siblings.
In Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, mothers had to mount a campaign to win an extra reception class at a popular school after being offered schools up to five miles away.
What the Daily Mail deliberately refuses to mention is that the main reason for this mess is mass immigration, and in fact nationalists will have noticed that the places where this problem is most acute are councils where native Britons are now a small minority.
But to understand this problem better you need look no further than Barking & Dagenham.
In the last seven years the birthrate in the borough increased by 50% and anyone who live there knows that this is not because long-term residents suddenly wanted to have bigger families but because Labour councillors swamped the borough with third-world immigrants.
Unsurprisingly this caused an increase in demand for school places but the axing of a £270m programme to build new schools and renovate existing ones is sending a shudder down Labour councillors’ spines as they cannot solve a problem they created in the first place.
Now, we said it many times before, without mass immigration there wouldn’t be any children taught in overcrowded and makeshift class rooms, once again we have been proved right.
The establishment knows it and that is why they are trying to destroy us.
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