Full schools mean 'tough choices' on admissions

EDUCATION could be left with 'tough choices to make' if parents of 17 youngsters due to attend La Houguette and Vauvert do not agree to let their child go to another school.

Both schools are oversubscribed, and Education confirmed it has received 63 applications for Vauvert, which has a maximum capacity of 50 if it continues to operate two reception classes. La Houguette received 34 applications, which is too many for one reception class but too few to support two.

Education has written to all parents who applied to either of the schools 'offering' them the chance to switch.

Its statement to the media yesterday did not make it clear what would happen if the required number of children - 11 from Vauvert and six from La Houguette - could not be switched voluntarily to different schools.

Director of education Alan Brown, pictured, said: 'I want to reassure all parents that at this stage a move out of Vauvert or La Houguette is a matter of choice - no one is being forced to make that decision.'