Meet the Parents starts a welcome grassroots movement: local people speaking up for their schools

Meet the Parents is a piece of ­community action that aims to get beneath the 'word on the street' and give a school a hearing via its parents and pupils. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAI would like to end the term on a positive note so I am going to tell you about a parent who contacted me recently. Fed up with what she describes as the "bewildering" array of school types, the rumours and the unduly negative comments she heard about her local secondary schools, she decided to take matters

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