In the wake of the furore over Education’s aim to shut St Andrew’s School, a whistleblower has contacted Midweek Murphy to tell the truth about the way in which the decision was made.
Midweek Murphy
On one especially lovely summer’s day when the hedgerows were alive with the buzz of the honeybee, and planes carved a cat’s cradle of vapour trails across a sapphire sky, a judge from Britain in Bloom poked around the parish of St Andrew’s, Guernsey.
I don’t know how much is too much to spend on a primary school. You see various figures knocking about for the running costs of St Andrew’s, and it is hard to conclude which one is correct. But let us say that the high-ish figure of £600,000 is right. On instinct, it still sounds like a bargain.