School asks court to rule on boy’s enrolment

A school is to ask the High Court to overturn a Department of Education direction compelling it to enrol a six-year-old boy who has severe behavioural difficulties.

The Co Meath-based national school’s board of management had refused to enrol the boy who had been expelled from his previous school for bad behaviour.

The boy’s parents — the family cannot be identified for legal reasons — wanted to enrol their son in a senior infant class at the new school which refused the enrolment “on health and safety grounds”.