A CONCERNED parent of a Pitcorthie Primary pupil is considering moving house to help his daughter’s education after councillors voted to close the popular school last week.

Controversial proposals to shut Pitcorthie Primary as part of a plan to plug massive holes in Fife Council’s budget were pushed through following a 13-4 vote by the council’s executive committee.

The decision came despite parents forming a campaign group against the plans, collecting more than 2000 signatures for a petition and Dunfermline MSP Cara Hilton delivering a presentation to councillors begging them to reject the proposals.

The parent, who is also a teacher at a Fife school and asked not to be named, said, “My choices for my child are not looking good as I do not want her to go to Lynburn Primary.

“I have had a look at the school and I think it is worse than Pitcorthie.

“I would have sent her to Canmore but now kids are being bused from Duloch every day and the school is full. If this is the case, I may have to move house.” Pitcorthie is expected to close in August 2015 but the parents’ campaign group have sent letters to Holyrood asking politicians to review the decision.

Fife Council tweeted the decision just minutes after it was finalised but the teacher claims it was another two days before the school officially informed parents.

He added, “Obviously, in this day and age we can find these things out ourselves and my wife saw the news on the Press website but I find it incomprehensible that we have not been offically informed by the school.

“The news was on Fife Council’s website before the school had been informed, being a teacher myself I have heard this from other teachers as well.” Shelagh Mclean, directorate resources manager, said, "We have kept parents up to date throughout this process in a number of different ways.

"We write directly to parents, post the latest information on the council's website and put updates on social media.

"We wrote to parents to let them know that a decison would be taken by the executive committee on 15th April. This information was also posted on our website.

"The executive committee was attended by a number of Pitcorthie parents, journalists and other members of the public.

"We make sure that as soon as decisions are made at committee we get the correct information out as soon as possible.

"This helps to lessen confusion which can be caused by misinformation from other sources.

"We immediately posted the decison on social media and our website. This was followed up by a letter to all parents."