Becky High
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:28 pm
We will soon have to choose which school to put first for our DD. Our choices are Beaconsfield High School which for many years now has been a very popular choice and is highly regarded and, Burnham Grammar School. A few years ago the choice might have been obvious. But BGS really does seem to be rising and I am somewhat nervous about things I know or have heard about Becky High.
For example, that Becky High is having major problems recruiting a new head. A change of school leadership is a traumatic, possibly dangerous time at best and they seem to be having a torrid time of it including reports in the national press of how the first appointed head was scared off taking up her post by student comments on Facebook. A second recruitment process has reportedly also fallen flat. And on top of all of that there there is the issue of the new building development which has run out of money possibly requiring the selling off of land (which is apparantly why they haven't applied for Academy status) etc etc
TBH it all sounds like a big mess! Any thoughts? I am hoping to gather some informed opinions here.
Thanks
For example, that Becky High is having major problems recruiting a new head. A change of school leadership is a traumatic, possibly dangerous time at best and they seem to be having a torrid time of it including reports in the national press of how the first appointed head was scared off taking up her post by student comments on Facebook. A second recruitment process has reportedly also fallen flat. And on top of all of that there there is the issue of the new building development which has run out of money possibly requiring the selling off of land (which is apparantly why they haven't applied for Academy status) etc etc
TBH it all sounds like a big mess! Any thoughts? I am hoping to gather some informed opinions here.
Thanks