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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Emma Gill

Dozens of pupils are still at home as furious parents refuse to send them to 'dumping ground' school

While most pupils are now back at school, a group of youngsters are still at home amid a row over school places.

The children's parents, angry with the high school school places they have been offered, are refusing to accept them and are calling on the council to find an alternative.

They all live around the Wythenshawe, M22/M23 area, and applied for various schools for their Year 7 kids, including Sale High, Altrincham College and Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, which all fall under Trafford Council.

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