A mother whose 11-year-old son is one of just two pupils at a village primary school has branded the decision to close it ‘disgusting’ as she said her son is receiving ‘the best education’ he’s ever had.
Each student at Ysgol Y Garreg school in the tiny hamlet of Llanfrothen, in Gwynedd, north Wales, is costing authorities £21,000 to educate – triple the county average – after its pupil numbers dwindled by almost 90 percent from 17 a year ago.
Speaking to the Daily Mail at her home, 50-year-old Sharon Morgan said Britain’s smallest school should be kept open, after the Plaid Cymru-controlled
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