Tahliba.. they have two academies near where i live and i nearly considered sending my child there..but i had the feeling then that the exclusion rate would be high...and to be honest I was NOT sueduced by the Hype..that was the primary reason why i didn't plump for it in the end... Now it seems i was dead right, I think BLACK people had better wake up to this issue, because with more and more of these schools on the horizon more and more of our school will end up permenantly excluded.

The thing is is that these school are answerable to no one, they don't even have school governors, and they one they have are powerless... I suspected then that these academies are a back door method of circumventing the appeals system on exclusion that most local authorities have...