€11k granted to put window in storeroom for teaching pupils

The Department of Education has made €11,000 available to install a window in a storeroom being used to teach three children with autism at a new primary school in Cork.

However, two mothers say they will not let their children back into a room with fewer facilities than the rest of the pupils at Rushbrooke NS in Cobh.

Marcia Fleming withdrew 10-year-old daughter Crea from classes when she discovered she was to be taught in the storeroom with no window. Though the emergency funding will lower the ceiling and put in a window and a glass-panel door, she said it would not have the toilet facilities that are in every other classroom in the €4.2m building that opened this month.