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Schools Charging Fees When Sending Acceptance Letters Is NOT Right
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PJ talks through 5 acceptance letters that ask for money when the pupil gets a place and hears from freelance journalist Peter McGuire who wrote about this in the Irish Times in 2020 ending the practice in Dublin
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