Faith school transport
Madam,
My eldest son received a questionnaire in his school folder last week from Ian Thomas, assistant director of Resources at Derbyshire County Council.
It asked us to vote on cutting £7million from transport costs for children going to faith schools.
However, it did not give any breakdown on total school transport costs for the council and only asked us to vote on this issue.
So, the council can continue, for instance, to transport children expelled from one school to their next one by taxi at our expense, while it wants to pull out of transporting a tiny minority of children going to schools their parents want them to go to for family religious reasons.
If the council wants to save money they could ditch the newspaper trumpeting their own endeavours which, if they put out a survey, might find out that it is thrown in the bin in the vast majority of households unread!
Incidentally, none of my children attend faith schools.
Kay Dinsdale
Main Street
Middleton
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Last Updated:
19 June 2008 4:29 PM
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