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Today, what happens to a city when its schools start shutting down?

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At Gospelot Primary School in North London, it's another normal day for the headmaster.

When I came here, although it discovered that they still had a school bell, I thought it was remarkable, but now actually it's one of the things that first thing in the morning,

and standing out there to greet all of the children and parents, that's a bit of the day I really enjoy.

But at the school gates, parents seem stressed.

Well, it seems to be we're having more new build, more regeneration, more people influencing into the borough, but more schools closing, it doesn't make sense.

And it is confusing. In such a wealthy neighbourhood, why are so many schools shutting down?

My name is Annette Fumentz, I'm a state-domain, so many kids that have lost out on education from moving and for the parents as well.

They're anxiety is going through the roof and so is the children's.

If you go into the inner city, Westminster and there's places like that, they're all comfortable.

You know what I mean? But if you go out of Westminster and start, you're seeing children suffering, you're seeing families suffering, you know, you see parents struggling.

But this isn't just a story about the cost of living or a story just about London.

This is about communities being broken and divided out by class and by age, at a pace that is utterly transforming the way that we live.

Young working families push to the margins, schools lost forever, and an inner city that is reshaped for the needs and the whims of the very affluent.

You know, with the way things happen, there's nothing you can do, we couldn't even stop by school closing, let alone anything else.

It's the trend now, you know, it's expensive to live in London, everybody knows it, and if you can't afford it, you have to move out.

What happens to society when it becomes so swiftly segregated? And why are schools so key to understanding how that change takes place?

This is important for everybody because education is the thing that everybody has to have. If you don't have good quality schools for everyone, you won't have the educated, qualified people who we need to keep our country moving forward.

From the Guardian, I'm Noshy Nikbaal. Today in focus, how the speed of gentrification is flipping London inside out.

I think you're a chocolate ball thing, you're a columnist and senior economics commentator for the Guardian, and you often examine the way we live and how it's changing.

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