Pupils withdrawn over 10-year wait for toilets

[Rhino]

Pupils withdrawn from school over 10-year wait for toilets

By Kathryn Hayes

Saturday June 07 2008

Around 125 pupils were withdrawn from a school yesterday in protest over the Government's failure to provide a new building for a school that has not been refurbished since 1909.

Parents of children attending Kilfinane National School in Co Limerick withdrew their children following an announcement by the Minister for Education that the project would not be funded this year due to departmental overspending.

The building is more than 100 years old, has only outside toilet facilities and was forced to close three years ago due to a rat infestation....http://www.independent.ie/national-news/pupils-withdrawn-from-school-over-10year-wait-for-toilets-1401308.html

[DesertFox]

Dang.

[Rhino]

Ain't socialism great?

[PrezLeefun]

Well good God. Join the second half of the 20th century if nothing else.

[DesertFox]

They're more polite in England. Here in America we'da burnt that sucker to the ground.

[DeclinetoState]

That's Ireland, not England.

A 10-year wait for a toilet has got to hurt. I usually can't wait for 10 minutes once I feel the urge coming on.

[DesertFox]

Agreed. Them must be some monster bladders.

[DoctorDoom]

Pupils withdrawn over 10-year wait for toiletsWithdrawn, my arse! If they waited for ten years for a loo, their pupils would be brown.