Getting your sums right in Stoke-on-Trent

It transpires that those who run our education system in Stoke-on-Trent aren't bad at getting their sums right.
Those clever people at Stoke-on-Trent Council have worked out that there will be 1,600 children who won't have a place at a senior school in 10 years' time.
The not so clever part is that they are errrrrrrrrrr...going to do nothing about this. This is because the council is just about to bulldoze many of the schools and build sparkling new academies. So there will be Bob the Builders everywhere knocking up classrooms.
The problem is that as soon as the builders' bums have disappeared from these sites they'll be back for more cups of tea to put up new classrooms for the extra numbers.
It just makes no sense, unless the council is trying to run a work creation scheme. It will also be more costly.
Simply, the new schools should be built, with the spare capacity in place for the flood of extra kids. This would be an effective use of builders and our money. But no. We are talking about Government and councils here.
If they can find a way of spending more of our money for no apparent reason then they will. If you want to read more, pop along to The Sentinel...