Having Trouble Placing Your Child At The School Of Your Choice?..Read On.

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SCHOOLS which are officially full are still taking in even more pupils – if they are migrants.

 

As workers flood in from new EU member-states, the number of their children in schools has doubled in the last year.

 

The figure is officially around 11,000 but is likely to be much higher because many councils do not have a breakdown of where pupils come from.

 

The migrants are being taken into schools where local children have already been turned away, and experts predict that the crisis will become worse when Romania and Bulgaria join the EU on January 1.

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Children whose parents had originally appealed in vain against the decision not to let them into Haven High were eventually offered a place. But those who did not appeal were given no second chance.

 

Local parents are furious. They say that not only are schools being overstretched but their children were turned down for places in the last academic year for lack of places.

 

One parent said: "It’s so unfair. My son has had to accept a school that was his second choice.

 

"Now it turns out that the school he wanted to go to is opening its gates to pupils from eastern Europe – even though we were told it was full.

 

"There’s not much sense of justice. It’s a real worry, because I have a second son who will be choosing his secondary school in a couple of years’ time, and we don’t know whether he will be able to get in or not."

 

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