East Riding councillors urged to 'drop envy' over Hull's new schools and get on with repairing their own

“In my view the main role of a councillor is to represent the people in their constituency and fight to improve the area they represent, whether it is the state of the roads, schools, crime etc. Because of voter apathy we end up with 3rd class candidates!”

“I was told the other day Hull are still paying for these schools BSF was not a freebie”

“Inglis, was it a long,rocky road,getting funding for your Big Screen ?”

“So cllr harrod who seemed keen on knocking down longcroft is shocked and appalled by the state of schools. As a school governor does she walk around with her eyes shut?
This is the same council that over budgeted on the roads to have £2.5 million spare to spend on tarting up Saturday market. They have clearly mismanaged the schools budget with them being in such a state. Poor leadership by a inept party of yes men who do not challenge the councils leadership. They are happy to take their generous allowances and have a nice holiday judging by harrolds tan.”

“A good news story for Hull, in a round-about way. All three Parties in the City recognised the problems we had with school buildings way back at the start of the century and in 2002/3 seized the opportunity that BSF seemed to provide. It was a long, rocky road to secure funding but the results of that work are now coming to fruition all across the City. Unfortunately, fantastic buildings don't necessarily ensure good educational outcomes for all but they certainly don't hurt.
One can't help feeling that in the early days of this project ERYC was a little complacent, slapping itself on the back and pointing out how much better it was than Hull, which also perhaps spurred us on. However, now, one cannot help thinking that Cllr. Hogan is right and its certainly too late to emulate what Hull did. All children deserve to be educated in decent surroundings and ERYC do need to get their thinking caps on to work out a means of improving some of their school buildings or they may see the traditional Hull "brain drain" reversing.”

“the innovative ways to fund schhols equals lets sell off playing fields to fund rebuild/refurbs and guess what behind her is the first one. thats not innovative its short sighted.
the councillers have known about the state of schools for years and simply buried thier collective heads in the sand. they keep all the small village schools open whether they are viable or not and leave the sububan schools to rot. why not a stategic vision of schooling in the east riding before selling the silver councillor harold.”

“The Tory PR machine is working overtime today red arrowing anything anti ERYC.

Buildings dont make good schools, the teachers and teamwork make for a good education. The manage to educate people in Africa in tin huts, you don't need a architects ego sized building.”

“Kerrie, don't worry...you'll whinge and moan until your pals let you knock down longcroft and sell it off to a developer. Thus losing us lots of playing fields you won't replace and building some monstrosity in it's place.
Spend a little on improving what we have. We're in a bloody recession.”

“Unfortunately, these schools made the mistake of not under-performing as that was the only way of getting funds thrown at you when Labour were in power and in the business of spending billions they didn't have.”

“Now who was Chief Executive when these schools were allowed to run into disrepair and decline?
Hull schools be on your guard.”