Here Endeth The Lesson

School Closure Is A Case Of Cross Purposes

One of the smallest schools in Britain has closed its doors for the last time. Cross Inn school, which opened near Aberystwyth in Ceredigion in 1855, had just two pupils. The running costs of $92,000 (about 45,000 pounds) a year per child made the two-room primary school one of the most expensive, eclipsing the fees of Eton and Harrow. Ceredigion Council decided to close the school after a steep drop in the number of pupils and the rising costs of keeping it open. The parents of the two remaining pupils fought a long campaign to save the school, stalling its closure by a year.