Hands Off Lewisham Bridge — Eviction Alert — Call for support

An evic­tion notice has been served on the occu­pa­tion at Lewisham Bridge.

Bailiffs are arriv­ing at 10.30 on Wednes­day morn­ing.

An evic­tion notice has been served on the occu­pa­tion at Lewisham Bridge.

Bailiffs are arriv­ing at 10.30 on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Hands Off Lewisham Bridge are ask­ing for your sup­port in resist­ing the evic­tion. We need as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to stay overnight on Tues­day. If you can’t stay overnight then please come down as ear­ly as pos­si­ble on Wednes­day morn­ing to sup­port the occu­pa­tion.

We want to let Lewisham Coun­cil know that they are evict­ing peo­ple who have been peace­ful­ly protest­ing over the destruc­tion of com­mu­ni­ty edu­ca­tion at our school.

Lewisham Coun­cil still don’t have plan­ning per­mis­sion for their new school. Lewisham Coun­cil still haven’t told us why the decant had to take place at East­er, when chil­dren were tak­ing SATs and band­ing tests. Lewisham Coun­cil still haven’t told us why they are pre­pared to wash their hands of the respon­si­bil­i­ty of edu­cat­ing our chil­dren.

If Lewisham Bridge Pri­ma­ry School is giv­en to Leathersellers we par­ents will have no say in the gov­er­nance of our school. Staff will be employed by Leathersellers who will set their own terms and con­di­tions tak­ing those teach­ers out of a col­lec­tive nation­al teach­ing body.

This is pri­vati­sa­tion! This is bring­ing the mar­ket into our kids’ edu­ca­tion, where the only moti­va­tion is prof­it and the only mea­sure is league table.

Trusts and acad­e­mies will com­pete for those chil­dren they believe to be desir­able and leave those whom they don’t on the scrapheap. Why have Pren­der­gast reject­ed the Trav­ellers Edu­ca­tion Ser­vice that used to be based at the school? Why have Pren­der­gast reject­ed the pro­pos­al to estab­lish a SEN (Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion­al Needs) unit at the new school?

A con­sul­ta­tion process has already start­ed for a trust led by Gold­smiths Uni­ver­si­ty which will gov­ern 3 schools: Addey & Stan­hope, Dept­ford Green and Cross­ways. It is a process that has exact­ly the same goal. To take our schools out of the pub­lic sec­tor and hand them over to the pri­vate sec­tor.

We can­not let them get away with this. We can fight this togeth­er and we can win!

Come down to Lewisham Bridge Pri­ma­ry School and let the bailiffs know that we’re not going eas­i­ly.

Hands Off Lewisham Bridge

07946 541 331

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