PLANS to locate a temporary classroom for excluded teenagers in the grounds of a Bare primary school has angered parents and local residents.
The County Council has requested planning permission for a temporary building on land at Great Wood Primary School in Bare, which will be used to teach pupils excluded from local secondary schools.
Parents and nearby residents say the site chosen by the County Council is wholly inappropriate and that it's wrong to put potentially disruptive teenagers so close to young children.
Some parents have threatened to withdraw their children if the plans get the go ahead and local councillors have joined the growing protests.
Cllr John Fretwell told the Citizen: "I' ve had loads of calls from concerned mothers and fathers about this - they feel outraged that the first they've heard about it is from a local planning application.
This a really good school in a quiet neighbourhood and what they don't need is teenagers, who have been thrown out of their own schools for disruptive behaviour, hanging about in the area all day.
Why this school? Morecambe High has a great expanse of land and so does the secondary school in Carnforth.
The county should think again about this."
One resident said: "This is a primary school and what kind of undesirables will be attracted to the wood and field thinking it is theirs.
I urge people in the area to object to protect this district.
I can see children being withdrawn from school in the light of this and who can blame them."
A county council spokesman said: "At present children who are excluded from school only receive ten hours of lessons per week.
New legislation will enable us to provide them with full time education.
This supervision will have advantages for the wider community and will mean that the needs of all the children are properly provided for..
" It is not envisaged that this new and completely separate unit will lead to any difficulties in the operation of the primary school."
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