Incorrect…by ballot regs, the younger sibling cannot secure places for older ones. Only an older sibling can secure a place for a younger one, and this provided that the school chosen is a mixed school if the siblings are of different gender or same gender school if siblings are of same gender.

[Daphne – Rights and tact are two separate matters, Persil. We have a right to do all sorts of things that we shouldn’t do, or that it would be tactless and egocentric to do. This is not about whether Manuel Mallia had a right to take a poor person’s place at a church school for his daughter when he can afford to pay fees (he has that right). This is about whether he should have done so: not whether he had a right, but whether he was right.]

The church ballots are not means tested, so there is no irregularity in it as such. The fact that he was there waiting like everybody else, shows that he was being transparent. One has to at least acknowledge that.

Re his sons, they clearly needed support and if church school entrance system provides provision (and scrutiny) for that kind of support, then he did his HW well like any other parent in his same situation.

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Incorrect Me again. Boys Index number 291 and 338 have also been secured a place bhala Kazijiet Umanitarju Gravi, in need of support for LSA/shared LSA. The boys actually got to have the school chosen before those in the ballot for Year 1.

He will actually get a place for the boy if he chooses a school like St. Francis which is for girls and boys.

Another clear sign of the PL’s hypocrisy.

Which is why any free entrance into Church schools should be means tested.

Komdu Manwel Mallia. Fejn irid u kif irid.

Ommu kienet tinfexx f’xeba kliem hazin meta sempliciment tara wicc Mintoff fuq it-televixin (rajtha u smajtha).