An 11-year-old boy is facing a two hour daily round-trip to get to classes after failing to get a place at any secondary school in his home town.
Bailey Wilson has been kept at home since September waiting for a space to come available at the schools near his home so that he can join his friends.
He has now been homeschooled for three months since being rejected by three different secondaries in Kettering, Northants.
Instead, he was offered a Year 7 place at a school in Rothwell, Northants., - which is more than seven miles away and a round-trip of two hours and 12 minutes.
Mum Freya Sturdy, 34, says she has been left heartbroken by the decision after Bailey told her all he wants for Christmas is to be able to go to school.
North Northamptonshire Council has been asked for a comment.
Bailey Wilson has been kept at home since September waiting for a space to come available at the schools near his home so that he can join his friends.
He has now been homeschooled for three months since being rejected by three different secondaries in Kettering, Northants.
Instead, he was offered a Year 7 place at a school in Rothwell, Northants., - which is more than seven miles away and a round-trip of two hours and 12 minutes.
Mum Freya Sturdy, 34, says she has been left heartbroken by the decision after Bailey told her all he wants for Christmas is to be able to go to school.
North Northamptonshire Council has been asked for a comment.
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00:00It's just boring. There's just nothing to do and then you see them going to school, having fun,
00:06posting on their stories and stuff and it's just like I'm sitting here doing nothing
00:10whilst they're all having fun at school and doing stuff with their friends,
00:15their new friends and that. I'm just kind of being left behind.
00:19My mum said what do I want to have for Christmas and I said probably just to go to school.
00:25That's all that I want.
00:26I've been basically doing, all I've been doing is just nothing.
00:34The homeschooling is just difficult because there's nothing really to do.
00:38They don't give us anything. My mum's had to pay for these.
00:43Websites are just boring because they don't really tell you how to do it,
00:48they just give you it and it's like I need to actually be learning,
00:51not just putting something in front of me and being told to do it.
00:55I see my friends go to school a lot and it just makes me sad because I've got nowhere to go.
01:01I see them walking by and they'll scream,
01:04Bailey, Bailey and that's the only thing that makes me happy really.