Academy Schools are NOTHING to do
with “better school standards” &
EVERYTHING to do with privatisation.
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SINFIN SCHOOL belongs to local people Don’t let the politicians give it away!

WHEN THEY PRIVATISED THE RAILWAYS, they said it was to improve them. It wasn’t. It was so that their capitalist friends could make loads more money. And they have.

WHEN THEY PRIVATISED GAS & ELECTRICITY, they said we would all benefit. We didn’t. Prices and profits went up and up, and still are going up. We were ripped off.

THEY SAID PRIVATISING WATER WOULD BENEFIT US. It didn’t. Now our water supplies are owned by foreign companies that make massive profits out of us.

TO JUSTIFY PRIVATISATION THEY TELL US LIES… but we’ve heard it all before.

WE ALL KNOW…
“Academy” schools take schools away from local people (who have paid for them!) and sell them off for next to nothing to millionaires and businesses, who then own them, the buildings and land, and employ all the staff.

IT’S DAYLIGHT ROBBERY! There are carpet warehouse bosses, used-car salesmen, pie and sausage manufacturers and hedge fund dealers running “Academies”, amongst many other fat-cat “sponsors”.

They also sometimes involve colleges and universities as a first step to make the sell-off look prettier, and make you think it’s not as bad as it might be. IT’S A CON TRICK!

“ACADEMIES” ARE A FIRST STEP TO THE FULL PRIVATISATION OF SCHOOLS.
They want to make profit, BIG money, out of children’s education… like they do in privatised schools in other parts of the world. That’s their ambition – but they’ll lie to you, just as they did over gas, electricity, water and railways… and all the other privatisations. People would not put up with their real plans, so they pretend it’s about “school standards”.

Find out more about the Communist Party in Derby
Text “tell me more” to 07979 230175
or come and meet us at
The Brunswick Inn, 1 Railway Terrace, Derby
(near the Railway station)
7.30pm Monday 15th December
where we will be discussing
The recession – an attack on workers

Breaking up the local school system - and giving schools to unelected people you can’t influence - does NOT improve school standards. They’ll tell you it will – but ask for the evidence. IT’S A DOWNRIGHT LIE!

In fact, across the country, “Academies” have a record of ADMITTING FEWER children from the poorest backgrounds and EXCLUDING MORE of children they don’t want - on grounds of “behaviour”. The government recently made a list of “failing schools”. 28 were Academies!

“The private sector” can’t even run its own banks! They’ve brought the economy into crisis through irresponsible speculation. Yet the politicians want to turn our schools over to the madness and personal interests of these capitalists – or “greedy, selfish bastards” as they are technically known.

As a the recession gets worse working class people are going to be under attack in all sorts of ways. It’s going to be tough. We have to stand up for ourselves. New Labour, the Tories and Liberal Democrats all support the other side. We have to rely on ourselves, our unions and our community organisations. Working together, we’re strong. We can stop the attacks.

Let’s start right now by saying,
“Keep your thieving hands off our school – it’s not for sale!”