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| Hundreds take part in Shetland rural schools protest | Hundreds take part in Shetland rural schools protest |
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| About 600 people have marched through the centre of Lerwick in a bid to save rural schools across Shetland. | |
| The council is proposing to reduce the size of junior high schools and to close primary schools in the north mainland. | The council is proposing to reduce the size of junior high schools and to close primary schools in the north mainland. |
| Saturday's march precedes the Shetland Islands Council meeting on Monday to decide what to do. | Saturday's march precedes the Shetland Islands Council meeting on Monday to decide what to do. |
| The campaign group Communities United for Rural Education (Cure) is involved in the protest. | The campaign group Communities United for Rural Education (Cure) is involved in the protest. |
| Cure secretary Gordon Thomson said: " I think the message today is that people really value their rural schools and want to see them supported and want the council to back them - at least from secondary one to secondary three level, if not secondary one to four. | |
| "They want rural primaries to keep going as well." | |
| But the council argues the current model of junior high schools does not fit the new Curriculum for Excellence. | |
| Shetland Council leader Gary Robinson said the island authority "spends £3,000 more per secondary pupil than the rest of Scotland and it simply can't afford to do that anymore". |