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PARENTS AND PUPILS CHAINED TO RAILINGS TO BLOCK ACADEMY
Striking primary teachers win kids’ solidarity against privatisation
DEFIANT parents chained themselves and their children to the entrance of a north-west London primary school yesterday in solidarity with staff striking against the school’s privatisation.
St Andrew and St Francis Church of England Primary School in Willesden is being turned into an academy after a rushed consultation process that parents believed “tricked” them to support the change.
Today teachers will enter their third day of strike action after first walking out a week ago.
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