Protesters' plea to MP Hogg
PUPILS and parents staged a quiet protest outside the Lafford High School on Friday against plans to start a phased closure of the school.
Posters have been created by the pupils appealing to save the school and they have been writing to MP Douglas Hogg asking him to support their campaign.
Year 11 pupil Ben Newton is one of those who has written to Mr Hogg. He said: "I will not be affected by the closure but my 12-year-old sister Caitlin will be. I do not want her education being affected if her confidence goes straight down from her having to move school.
Lynn Bowden's 14-year-old daughter Jade is currently in Year 8 and will be affected by the school's closure. She said: "It will affect my daughter drastically. She likes it here and moving her will also split her up from her friends.
"My son Ryan has special needs and he was going to a school in Grantham who said he should be in a special school and not a mainstream school. I moved him to the Lafford and they got him through his GCSE's a year early and now he is studying computing at Boston."
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