For all those people who for decade upon decade who gained insights into Winifred West's vision and extraordinary achievements as an educator and PLACEmaker, this news is bewildering to say the least. To suggest that the governors she entrusted her vision to have lost sight of the values Winifred West espoused, on the evidence, is nothing short of astounding.
To suggest that the plot has indeed been lost, one wonders if today's FRENSHAM Governors have the remotest idea about what it is that they have been entrusted with.
Sadly, it is what it has come to and it is what it is. Nevertheless, as Francis Bacon has been reported as arguing, we must not only observe nature in the raw, and then, sometimes we must twist 'the lion's tail'. That is, manipulate the world in order to learn its secrets – indeed reveal them to the world.
