New school scheme sees children banned from new sports equipment unless parents pay towards it

Parents have criticised a school after it launched a scheme to see each child pay £6 to use new sports equipment, but said those who had not paid were not allowed to use it. The parent council at Wednesbury Oak Academy in Tipton, West Midlands, asked for a voluntary donation per child to buy the equipment for pupils to play with. When the scheme launched, however, parents claimed their children had been separated into those who had paid, who could use the equipment, and those who had not.
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