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pinkrabbit38
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Transport

Post by pinkrabbit38 »

I have just read in the Essex Chronicle that as from September 2015 they will be scrapping help with transport costs. They will only provide transport for children who attend their local non-faith school. Children who's parents are on a low income and currently in Grammar schools will continue to receive funding but they will not give funding to any new children starting Grammar school from September 2015.

Surely this is discrimination?

What do people think?

Are you, like us, affected by this change?
Sundae21
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Re: Transport

Post by Sundae21 »

Yes, definitely not right...
However, this article I read the other day seemed to suggest that the plans to remove free transport to grammar schools from low income families had been scrapped. There are changes to 16+ year olds students' transport provisions.
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