Netherlands: VVD party against transportation to religious schools
Municipalities shouldn't be the ones paying for the transportation of students to Reformed or Islamic schools outside the region, says the VDD party. The party wants to end travel allowances for parents who chose to send their children to schools further away for religious reasons.
VVD-parliamentarian Ineke Dezentjé fears that the allowance is at the expense of transporting handicapped students to a school appropriate for them. "It should be spent on children who really need it." She knows of municipalities where handicapped children as young as 9 have to go to school by bicycle or bus, since there's not enough money to transport everybody.
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
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