Transfer chaos - sign up to the Belfast Telegraph Online Petition

24 September 2009

We support the Belfast Telegraph's demand for focused Executive talks to find an agreed solution to the current school transfer crisis We believe that a solution cannot be reached without agreement among our political parties We appeal to ministers, party chiefs and MLAs to show the leadership needed to tackle the biggest issue facing our children in a generation

Campaign manifesto

WE ARE DEMANDING:

• concerted and focussed Executive talks aimed at finding an agreed solution to the transfer chaos
• that parties accept they have responsibility to parents, teachers and children to set aside differences and undertake a proper negotiaton process;
• that Executive ministers understand that no single party is to blame for the current crisis and that their constituents are tired of the current blame culture;
• the Executive finds an agreed solution so the children of 2011 do not face the same trauma as those in 2010.

WE ARE NOT:

• seeking the retention of selection;
• supporting the transfer policy of any political party or interest group;
• prescribing a Belfast Telegraph vision of school transfer - we believe this is job of our political leaders