School bus turns boy away for not being Christian

An asthmatic boy was refused a place on a school bus and told that he must walk six miles home because he was not a baptised Christian.

Thomas Rosevear, 13, a pupil at a Church of England comprehensive school, was stopped at the door of the bus as his friends got on. When his mother, Lin, complained she was told that if she wanted a pass she would have to pay £270 because her son was not a Christian.

Mrs Rosevear, a lapsed Baptist, said: “It is absolutely outrageous. My child is being discriminated against because I didn’t have him baptised. How dare they play God with demands like this.”

Mrs Rosevear also said: “My son’s lack of religion has never been a problem before, so why now? They let him into the school, so why can’t he get the bus just because he doesn’t share their beliefs? If they let him go to the school, why are they demanding so much money to let him get the bus there? It is hardly the most Christian thing to do.”