Article: School closure parents protest over 'concentration camp' huts

PARENTS at a Glasgow school threatened with closure blocked a road in the city yesterday to protest at "concentration camp" plans to teach their children in huts at another school four miles away.

A group of about 30 pupils and parents from St Leonard's in Easterhouse sat down in the road and chanted outside St Andrew's Secondary, Carntyne, where Glasgow City Council expects to send 560 Easterhouse pupils from August. At present the host school has just over 300 free places and the council plans to build 18 temporary huts

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