Save Our Strings & Percussion @saveourstrings
Fighting to prevent West Lothian Council from cutting all string and percussion instrument tuition, orchestras and bands 🎼🥁🎻 facebook.com/saveourstrings… West Lothian Joined March 2018-
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Fab music, played by the pupils! Long may it continue. @RalphLRiddiough
Ceilidh fun at this afternoon’s S1-2 Christmas Ceilidh #goodfun #ceilidh #dashingwhitesergeant #liveband
Meeting TODAY at 2pm to look at future delivery models for IMS, including chartiable trust or arms-length organisation. Council Officials are recommending it stays in-house. @RalphLRiddiough @CllrMiller @yhconsulting coins.westlothian.gov.uk/coins/agenda.a…
@DameEvelyn hope Strings/percussion are saved? Are trying to have a positive last weekend! Thanks for reading
@DameEvelyn you would be willing to give a few sentences we could put on our fb page? Something general like good luck Tues to families...
@DameEvelyn you’d kindly given us a supporting statement when we started our campaign. The final decision is on Tues. was wondering if...
Looking for anyone interested in being involved with a Charitable Trust and name suggestions as well!
The Education Executive meets Tues to make the final decision. We want to set up a Charitable Trust see our fb page: facebook.com/saveourstrings…
We are back on Twitter! Lots of news! The survey to families showed 53% support saving Strings/percussion through means tested charges...
@gus4077 Don't worry, we're setting up a website to help people reply properly. They can't stop us from giving whatever repossess we want.
DON'T RESPOND TO THE CONSULTATION YET! Ridiculous survey letters from @LoveWestLothian are landing on doormats this morning. If you get one, please don't reply yet, we'll get advice out in the next couple of days. If you absolutely must reply, please write NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Here's what West Lothian Council thinks passes for a consultation. Tick one box based on wildly biased and exaggerated information and that's your lot. FWIW fees wouldn't have to be above £250 all-in, and that's with the lowest income 30% getting it free or half-price. 1/2
@DrMoiraShemilt @scottishlabour 2/2
@DrMoiraShemilt @scottishlabour Here's what we've been sent. My expectations were very, very low, but this falls well beneath even that. 1/2
@TCInews @GilliesLorraine @TCIEngagement @LoveWestLothian 2/2
@TCInews @GilliesLorraine @TCIEngagement @LoveWestLothian Thanks, we'll be in touch. Families have started receiving survey letters this morning - vote for one of four bad options, no space to add any comments. It's a sham. 1/2
@emmapark73 @LoveWestLothian Because they'd rather have free tuition for 1,200-ish pupils in their favoured instruments than affordable fees to provide tuition for 2,100. They think brass is proper working class music and violin is for posh girls in leafy Linlithgow. Genuinely. It's nuts.
One of my favourite choons. The West Lothian Folk Group plays it beautiful, yet @LoveWestLothian wants to close the group, stop tuition for strings and take back loaned instruments. We're not even asking for more money, we just want to pay fees to keep it going 😢 x.com/GaryInnes/stat…
What a weekend on the beautiful Isle of Raasay for Ewan Dougal Robertson’s stag do and when we passed Calum’s Road, well we couldn’t resist 🎶
@ElleJBe @BBCPolliemac @BBCScotlandNews @TheAyoubSisters @RCStweets There are some great YMI projects, like the @RCStweets-delivered Saturday Strings at a couple of West Lothian schools. But you're absolutely right, overall YMI is no substitute for tuition and not relevant to this issue.
So @LoveWestLothian consulted pupils today. Meetings with a day's notice, in front of headteachers, with a weird briefing paper that instructors were banned from seeing and with ludicrously inflated fees for figures. <sigh>
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