The English Schools Foundation has turned down a request for a second meeting with Beacon Hill School parent-teachers' association to discuss the inspection report crisis that led to the resignation of principal Robert Lyden.
The PTA called for a new meeting following a closed-doors session with ESF executive officers last week that ended with parents passing a resolution to consider withholding school fees for a month from January 1.
Following that meeting, ESF director of human resources John Tustin said the foundation would continue a dialogue with parents and consider a request for a further meeting with chief executive officer Jennifer Wisker, who is about to retire.
But ESF officer John Bohan has since written to the PTA to say the foundation prefers to deal with the school council. 'I fully accept that a continued dialogue can promote greater understanding for all concerned. In this respect the school council . . . has responsibility for the overall management of the school, and I believe that this is the correct and most appropriate forum for addressing the concerns of all parties,' he said.
The ESF has also rejected a parents' request that they be consulted before any further changes are made to the Kowloon Tong primary school.
Mr Bohan told them: 'The ESF ordinance does not give PTAs the power to 'require that all future changes to leadership and management . . . be put to parents first'.'