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Letter; Stunned by heads comments
I was stunned and angry to read the front page in the Boston Standard of September 3 in which Giles headteacher Chris Walls attacked the grammar school system which has always offered a very good all-round education.
Merging the High School and the Grammar School in Boston should be a 'non starter'. They will both lose their individuality, their identity, in which pupils of both have pride, their school's achievements, which rub off on them and inspire them. Some people seek to destroy excellence where they find it. They want the same in everything. Even 'good, better, best', are all different in quality not the 'same'. Keep the 'quality' in these schools – no merger – no 'dumbing down'.
Another negative: Into Town Bus Service. Bostonians are parking their cars and 'getting in the way of the buses making them late'. The Market Place has been torn up, parking spaces have shrunk.
The huge area in front of Boots, always empty. The 'five lamps' island, which wasn't really, has gone, replaced with a limited area disabled and other parking – always parked up. The parking bays 'seem' smaller also; one could go round the island and try to find a space, again. Now you can't. It is one way out of the Market Place. This parking carry-on in the town is costing shops shoppers.
Brylaine would do better with no cars, but no cars means no shoppers and no trade.
There are still empty shops. People are 'scattered' in the precinct now when the bus comes through – the bus comes first. It can't be a precinct really – have to rename it. The council begs people to give the bus a chance, it should have been insists, not begs at all – the council rules, but we put them there and if they really want it as a deal the buses will stay.
Another thing: a few weeks back, a fine day! Three obvious tourist types, visitors plus cameras, near the only working parking meter near Hoppers Jewellers. Not been to Boston recently – the bus honking to get through the precinct, people running about to and fro. Mystified, the woman said 'What's happened to Boston?' What could anyone say?
We've still got the longest parish church in England the biggest working mill in England and a fantastic building which I believe has won a prestigious award in 2008, The Guildhall. We have a town turning into concrete if we don't watch it, people running about trying to cope. When they finally stop they won't know where they've been or when. Life is that complicated.
All this pales into insignificance when you consider the most talked about, written about subject which affects all of us is what do we put in our rubbish bins, the wheelie bins – unheard of a few years back. When you consider the ramifications of this you know we really have lost it.
T. Cooper
Boston Resident
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