By Community Correspondent Kevin Thomas

So from next year 2010 Croydon Council will be implementing a directive to close down our local Broadmead infant’s school in favour of amalgamating it into the primary school.

I am told that this is for the best!

My question is best for whom?

The council coffers more like it, I fail to see past the council who will benefit from this.

Parents at the Broadmead Infant school are very worried that after this year all the children from the infant school will be thrown into one big school.

The question posed since the last upheaval of classroom overcrowding of 1997, is our children will squashed into the over burdening large class sizes.

Every year the regions intake has been increasing due to the over stretched resources to accommodate the ever increasing population of asylum seekers because of the closedown of the border security in Liverpool.

The quality of schooling has been undermined for schools in borough for some years due to the government pressurising our council to reduce cost and at the same time increase the national average examination pass rate.

Argument for and against may go back and forth between the government and our MP’s and our council, but the fact remains the same, we the parents take the brunt for the fall out and our children our going to suffer to inferior quality of schooling.

The Broadmead teaching staff have been working their socks off to give our children the best teaching and care only for the council to undermine our over worked teaching staff, with impossible targets only to reward them with lack of support and no appreciation for there implementation of the most popular teaching method phonetic reading and writing.

If more consolidation was made to ensure quality of children education takes precedence, you might find that the national average for pass rates would increase due to the quality of low classroom sizes proportional to the teachers.

“The bigger the size classes the less discipline becomes and the more stressed children”

More infant children in England's schools are being taught in classes above the legal limit of 30.

Figures released by the government show the proportion of infant classes with more than 30 pupils is 1.7% - up from 1.5% in January last year.

And the number of five to seven-year-olds being taught in "unlawfully large classes" has more than doubled in two years, to more than 10,000.

The government says that overall since 1997 class sizes have fallen.

Limits needed on school size to help discipline, say teachers at ATL conference With the ever increasing discipline breakdown due to large class sizes, efforts should be made to give our children breathing space to learn without the stress and lack of attention due to overcrowded classom sizes.