Dear Madam, - Why is it that the Fermanagh Protestant Board of Education thinks that it has the right to propose the closure of the Collegiate Grammar School for which it has NO responsibility? This Board is composed of five representatives from the Church of Ireland, three representatives from the Presbyterian Church, one representative from the Methodist Church and has co-opted two others. The Bishop of Clogher Diocese, the Rt. Rev. J McDowell, is the Chairman.
The plan is that the amalgamated school would work on split sites in the interim while it waits to apply for a new school and to have it built. This might never happen given the poor state of the Department of Education’s budget for capital spend.
It is incredible and indeed distressing to note that Foyle College and Londonderry Girls High School were amalgamated in 1976. This school is still working on split sites almost forty years later. Is this what we want for the young people of Fermanagh, a school trying to work on either side of an island town? I think not.
Yours faithfully Anti-amalgamation
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