A Galway couple are scratching their heads at state bureaucracy which will see their young son going to school by bus from September – while his sister has to make her own way to the same school.
Even more bizarrely, another seven children at Clontuskert National School will also lose their bus ride from September, because Department of Education regulations insist you must have at least ten pupils to be entitled to a service.
But the service will still be in place for one boy (and his minder) because he has special needs and is therefore entitled to transportation to school – leaving his sister to find her own way from the same house to the same school!
“You could not make this up if you tried,” declared an outraged Cllr Michael Finnerty of Fine Gael who has been on to the Department to try and resolve the issue that is affecting the pioneering school.
“I am astounded by what I have been told about this particular situation and I can only assume that it is not unique,” Cllr Finnerty added.
School principal Kate Murray outlined her frustration in an email to local councillors, pointing out that they had a bus service for more than ten years which brought children to the school.
See full story in this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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