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Who are we?
I was wondering the same thing. I think itâs the political activists who claim to represent all parents at the school. Led by the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition activist Martin Powell-Davis and a couple of left-wing parents.
Any official statements from Cllr Maslin or the school itself will go in the main forum. Debate goes here in #politicos:local-politics
I can find nothing to back up this âinformationâ.
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I joined that FB group & I had a look but couldnât find the above post on there, and when I clicked on the link above I got this 
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@JamesEvans⌠I was honestly interested. But your article kept referring to âweâ and I only wanted to know who âweâ was.
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Excuse me for not believing everything I see on the internet. Do you have anything to back up this info and why was the post deleted?
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James, Iâm extremely interested in this subject especially as a FH School parent & am very worried about the situation especially as my son has SEN - I think the community has to work together to come up with a long term solution for this.
Thereâs some updates on the FB site. Apparently there has been questions about the validity of the figure. The notice has returned in an edited format. And because of this one of the Action Groupâs adminâs has stepped down.
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I hope the original OP is able to comment on this!!
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James as a future prospective parent I am very interested in this too.
I do think the local community should be discussing this as it will affect many and I am not sure why this has been put in Politics as the original post did not look that political to me.
Whatever the validity or not of the figure of redundancies, the very fact that there is speculation about this and no âofficialâ figures suggests that the Council need to improve their communication with parents. There is a huge amount of worry amongst parents and new parents which is not healthy, and which will be very unsettling for the boys due to start in September. In the absence of accurate facts and proper opportunity for discussion and resolution, there is bound to be fear and scaremongering. There is a blog post from the Councillor responsible but surely parents should have more than a blog post to go on? The end result of the lack of engagement will be rumours going round and prospective parents will be looking to send their children to alternative schools, which is not good for the community.
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@Daffodil I hear you, but with the benefit of hindsight I still feel it was right to move this topic here. It claimed to present a group viewpoint but didnât identify the group. It presented facts without anything to back them up. It risked serious scaremongering.
What do we know about the people involved? They are led by political activists. They blocked at least one commenter on Facebook for questioning their bias. They were quick to press an activist agenda before any of the facts were revealed in the FHS situation.
Article now appearing in media (which doesnât make it any more true):
Only new bit is:
A spokesperson for Lewisham Council said, âWe are doing everything we can to support the head teacher and chair of governors of Forest Hill School to raise standards and bring the budget back onto a secure financial footing.
âWe welcome the NUTâs suspension of their strike action.
âTalks are continuing between Forest Hill School and the NUT to try and address the unionâs concerns. We hope these talks will result in an agreement that avoids further strike action.â
Which doesnât really address the point at all.
I have been following the FH parents action group Page and they are concerned parents. The only people I have seen posting on there recently are parents. Perhaps in the earlier days it was more âactivistsâ.
The NUT has its own, separate Facebook page.
I would have thought If the figures were incorrect it would have been an ideal opportunity for the Councillor to come on to the forum to present the correct facts, to stop any more scare-mongering, because like it or not this is the figure that is being bandied about - as demonstrated by Michaelâs link above.
(Also I donât think itâs the responsibility of forum moderators to fact-check every single post!)
Just a side note - By moving the topic to politics, which most people are probably not opted-in to, it just looks like the topic has just been deleted from the forum.
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Iâd feel more comfortable with this rumour going out to our tens of thousands of visitors if I knew who the current leaders of the âAction Groupâ are, where they got this information, and why their word is more reliable than our local councillorâs response to this claim.
Creating a Facebook Group is easy. Whipping up a frenzy based on a rumour is too easy.
Why wonât Lynley Oram (or whoever originated this story) come forward and put her name against it on the forum? Why was it retracted from the group on Facebook?
SE23.life has differentiated itself from Facebook Groups because here, individuals credibily represent themselves and the organisations they work for.
Michael, Iâve got some info about the amount of money borrowed & payments made from the FB page & someone emailed me with more info about the whole situation - I wanted to go over these with you & @JohnRussell after our library meeting on Sunday to see if we could get to the bottom of it between us, which would then make it easier for everyone to work out the best way to help the situation.
Sorry for springing more work on you, I was going to surprise you both on Sunday with it 
I wonât have time on sunday and Iâm not really the best person to understand school finances. I would hope the governors are the best people to deal with the situation in the best interests of pupils.
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The problem is I donât really know whoâs dealing with what and if anyone is - and when parents have been emailing Cllr Paul Maislin to ask for help and/or info all have got an automated reply telling them to read his blog which really doesnât have any info or help on there.
Basically I think individuals are being ignored.
My thinking was that if we could work out what was what between me, you, & John to the best of our ability and asked for further info as a group we might get somewhere.
Iâll put what Iâve got in an email & send it to you, but I think something needs to be done yesterday to save the School.
And I always trust advice from you & John on community matters as itâs always invaluable 
Iâm always happy to have a chat with you but not always a formal discussion pre-announced on forums. There are much more involved people than me on this issue and much better people for you to speak to about school governance.
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Weâll have a quick friendly chat then where I can pick your brains