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| Description | Page 51 Contains:
- A postcard to Tom Gretton with a 1988 postmark. The signature on the card is illegible.
- A newspaper cutting annotated with 'Guardian 11/4' from the 'Letters to the Editor' section, headed 'Why parents must have their say', containing varying points of view about the parents' ballot.
- A newspaper cutting annotated as 'Ind 3/5' with two letters regarding the london parents' ballot, one from Christine Prior suggesting that those against the ballot results hold their own ballot, and one from Michael Ivens accusing the campaigners of putting out a 'deluge of propaganda' to children which was all in favour of the ILEA.
- A newspaper cutting with the annotation 'Ind 18/4' and the headline 'ILEA ballot and parental choice' containing a letter from Lord Basnett on the government's inconsistent attitude towards ballots and one from Tom Gretton answering the letter from Michael Ivens, described above.
- A newspaper cutting from 'News Shopper 28/4' headed 'Parents in vote of no confidence at ILEA abolition'. Tom Gretton urges Mr Baker to meet with the Parents' Central Consultative Committee to discuss the results.
- A newspaper cutting, unclear which publication, but annotated with the date '14/4'. The article headed 'Massive majority say let's keep Ilea' reports on the results of the ballot.
- A newspaper cutting annotated with 'GDN' and a date in 1988, headed 'Parent power, chapter and verse' and a letter from Dr Jack Demaine, Loughborough University, urging Kenneth Baker to give a reponse to the london parents' ballot.
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