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Do you feel pressured to pay school voluntary fees?

Children are being denied lockers, diaries and even access to daily school activities because their parents cannot afford so-called ‘voluntary’ school fees. That is according to National Parents Council who have called the practice ‘a disgrace’, ‘totally unacceptable’ and that school ‘must cease immediately’. What do you think? How voluntary are ‘voluntary fees’? Ciara chats to listeners