How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?

THE IDLE AMERICAN: Making do at London school

The event is “brain-etched,” deeply embedded and validated by the calendar. It was May of 1962, all “heady stuff” for a one-year-out-of-college guy invited to make a commencement address. The distance was 87 miles from Brownwood to London in Texas’ beautiful Hill Country, where I would speak at graduation exercises for four seniors at a school that would cease to exist a year later. What did I know about speaking? Reeling after accepting Superin…

How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?

Experts say unaffordable housing is behind the lack of pupils driving some London schools to close. But the picture isn't quite that simple.