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WTF?

School registers sheep as pupils in bid to save classes from closing

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

12:27 8 May 2019


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Ewe've got be kidding!

A school in the French Alps has taken an extremely novel approach to save classes from closing due to lack of pupils. 

Jules-Ferry in Crets en Belledonne, a small town of less than 4,000 people was informed that it would need to close a number of classes due to a lack of new students. 

So how are they combating the problem? They've enrolled fifteen sheep in the primary school, reports Sky News

The sheep have joined the 261 children at the school in a symbolic move to tackle what parents have described as a "miserable situation".

It's understood that the names of some of the new students include Baa-bete and Saute-Mouton.

Gaelle Laval, one of the parents behind the initiative, told Le Parisien newspaper: "National education is unfortunately only numbers. And so now, with this surge in numbers, we are good."

The school currently has 11 classes, and Ms Laval is against a proposal to scale back to 10 as it would mean the average number of students in each rises from 24 to 26.


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