AROUND a hundred parents sat in the hall at The Wensleydale School this week to find out why the head teacher had departed unexpectedly and what was being done to improve the school's performance after the last GCSE results were so disappointing.
Parents repeatedly told the governors, senior teachers and local authority officers that the school's communication was not good enough.
The issues at Wensleydale are different to those which have affected Richmond School in recent years.
Yet the calls for transparency in Leyburn echo those which have been made ten miles down the road in Richmond.
It should not need a school or a local authority to be bombarded with requests for information from the public and the press before it
. The default position should be openness.
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