Local lad Jack could face 64km round-trip to school [Independent.ie]
- Published: 28 April 2010
IF Jack McCabe doesn't get into his local second-level school in Gorey, he could face a 64km daily round-trip, or being sent as a boarder to Dublin.
Jack lives only 8km away from the north Wexford town, but is low on the priority list for admission to its community school.
Gorey Community School is the only second-level school in the area. The schools in Enniscorthy are 22km away and the next closest is in Arklow, 32km away.
The family live in Ballyoughter, south of Gorey, so a trek to Arklow would mean passing Gorey every day en route to a school in Co Wicklow. "It doesn't make sense at all," said his father Robert McCabe.
"My wife works in Gorey, I go the other direction, so it would mean putting a 12-year-old on a train to Arklow every morning."
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