It is some time since Welsh Ministers faced protests on the Eisteddfod field but this week it is business as usual. The BBC report that parents will be protesting at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Ceredigion over a decision to reject school reorganisation in Cardiff:
A statement released on behalf of the protesters, which includes members of the Welsh Langauge Society, said Treganna’s sister school Tan-yr-Eos was opened in 2007 on a site shared with Ninian Park School with the promise it would only operate for two years while a permanent solution was found.
It said Mr Jones’s decision “gives no hope and no solutions to parents and pupils at Treganna and Tan-yr-Eos who have simply no idea what will happen to their children and their younger siblings in the coming years.
“As the first minister cites the detrimental effect of split-site education on pupils at English medium schools as grounds for refusal, this is already happening at Ysgol Treganna and Tan yr Eos, with brothers and sisters being split up and bused around for classes and sports lessons.”
The protesters will wear the “Welsh Not” symbol at the protest in reference to the practice of making pupils who spoke Welsh in some schools during the 19th century having to wear or carry a piece of wood with WN (“Welsh Not”) inscribed on it.
This is now the second time in as many weeks that the government which contains Plaid Cymru Ministers is the subject of protests about the Welsh language. Perhaps they need to do some work on their core vote.
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