If the bulge class continued, she added, “what happens in four years when there an extra 120 children in the school? How will the staff manage? Four of the lessons my daughter had today were taught by substitute teachers, so how would they cope with even more children?”
Ben Weinberger, from Cockfosters, north London, whose 14-year-old son did not get into JCoSS or JFS, was “unimpressed.”
“These schools are being forced into doing this because they’re scared of other schools opening up,” he said. “Why didn’t they offer to do this previously? It’s not a new problem.”
Another mother, whose daughter turned down a place at JCoSS, said she was concerned about a trend which meant “fewer and fewer non-Jewish children are getting the opportunity to socialise with Jewish children.”
