Toilet roll call school should be able to make ends meet, insists O'Keeffe [Independent.ie]
- Published: 07 October 2009
EDUCATION Minister Batt O'Keeffe has hit back at a school's decision to ask parents to send toilet paper in with children because of budget cuts.
The minister last night said that he was "really surprised" at the sending of a letter to parents because the "school should be well capable of making ends meet".
He was reacting to the move by a 540-pupil Co Cork primary school principal who told parents she needed to conserve dwindling state funding to meet the educational needs of their children.
Catherine O'Neill, principal of St John's Girls National School, Carrigaline, yesterday said the school had lost grants, such as for books, while voluntary contributions from parents were needed for costs such as insurance and arts and crafts materials.
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