article_snippet: Now boys Alistair and Louis have been told that when boys Alistair and Louis start school in September this year after reaching the legal age for compulsory education, boys Alistair and Louis will have to go straight into Year One and not join reception classes with pupils just weeks younger than boys Alistair and Louis.
article_snippet: But on the same day as schools minister Nick Gibb addressed MPs, Hertfordshire County Council wrote to the McGruer family to say Louis and Alistair would not be able to join the reception class in the September.
article_snippet: Two years ago Louis and Alistair asked Hertfordshire County Council to delay the boys’ start date for a year, but still in reception.
article_snippet: But last week the request was rejected, and the boys have been told the boys must go into Year 1 in September 2015 or the boys risk losing a school place at Mandeville Primary School where the boys originally applied.
article_snippet: ‘Academically and emotionally, the boys are nowhere near ready to start year one –
article_snippet: the boys would effectively be a year younger than many of the boys classmates .
article_snippet: understand we situation and are ready to accept the boys as we are requesting - if the places are allocated by Hertfordshire County Council.
article_snippet: A spokesman for the local authority said: 'Hertfordshire County Council policy, as the admissions authority for community and voluntary controlled schools in Hertfordshire, is that all children should have a school place in the September following all children fourth birthday. '