Upper Bann MLA Doug Beattie says such a decision would damage the whole controlled sector in Lurgan – leaving working class protestant boys and girls as the greatest losers.
The Ulster Unionist MLA said: “The issue of the future around the Lurgan campus of Craigavon Senior High School has been an ongoing saga.
“I make no apologies for continually raising concerns that just closing the campus and bussing the children to Portadown is not the answer.
“This will not help those educationally vulnerable children in Lurgan and the surrounding area, who are not selected to receive a Grammar education, achieve better educational outcomes.
“I am concerned that the Education Board have discussed this issue and have recently decided they will support the Education Authorities preferred option to just bus the kids out of the town.
“This goes against what the community want, ignores a realistic plan that has been proposed and damages the controlled sector post primary educational pathway in the town.
“Parents who live in Lurgan or surrounding town and villages who…
