In the UK: Free travel denied to schoolgirl.
An 11-year-old girl starting at a new school has been denied transport by coach because she is not baptised.
Hertfordshire County Council claims the transport requirement was explained to her parents before they sent her to a Church of England school in St Albans. Sydnie Jai lives with her mother Frances Wood at Hatfield - a journey of about eight miles to the school.
Mrs Wood said Sydnie is too young to consider baptism and she felt she was being discriminated against.
A school spokesperson defended the decision:
"We think it quite reasonable when offering transport to faith schools that parents show that the child is of that faith.
And what better way to show that a child is faithful than by dunking the kid's head in water?
