'I didn't like school either' says Judge [wexfordpeople.ie]
- Published: 28 September 2011
JUDGE JOHN Coughlan sympathised at Wexford District Court with a teenage girl who hates school.
'I had a lot of problems at school. I didn't like school,' said the Judge.
The mother of the girl who is now 15 and in 3rd year, was prosecuted by the National Educational Welfare Board for failing to ensure that her daughter attends school.
Caitriona Walsh, solicitor for the Board, said the girl attended for two days out of 167 in the school year 2009/2010 and last year, she did not attend at all.
Her mother told the court that her daughter said she got panic attacks in school.
She accepted it was her fault that she didn't get in touch with the school to explain.
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