Questions over Parents’ Council policy

AS the principal of a primary school for the past 12 years, I have often suspected that the National Parents’ Council (NPC) did not reflect the views of the majority of parents in this country.

Listening to the radio the other morning, I felt my fears were justified when I heard the president of the NPC - Secondary state that its new policy of not using buses without seatbelts from September next was formulated on the basis of a "ring around".

I know of no other body that claims to represent such a large number of people nationally which forms policy in such a haphazard fashion.