§ 106. Mr. Skinnardasked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that the Cornwall County Education Authority has refused to pay the fares of children from Perranporth attending Truro Secondary Modern School on the grounds that they could attend overcrowded senior classes at Goodhavern; that fares are paid in the case of one child, whose parents removed from Middlesex on the grounds that she had attended a 108W secondary modern school before coming to Cornwall; and will he intervene to insist that all pupils making the daily journey to Truro receive equal treatment in this matter.
§ Mr. TomlinsonNo. The authority exercised their discretion to treat the child from Middlesex as a special case because she had been attending a secondary school there. Any further extension of the concession to children to whom special circumstances do not apply would lead to the overcrowding of the Truro schools: the Truro Girls' Secondary School is already full.