Those who would let the department die argue that the school cannot afford to do everything.

Picture a private school setting, with all of the educational extras such schools can afford.

'Under local management many schools cannot afford their own security system,' he said.

Private religious schools, they said, could not afford to include the disabled children.

The school couldn't afford to pay him a large salary.

Teachers stuck in roles they don't want because other schools can't afford them and working way past their best before date.

The school has not afforded a pass rate of more than 5% since its establishment in 1982.

The school was accredited in 1979 but could no longer afford to keep its doors open by 1991.

The school can no longer afford to do that.

Many schools can't afford a music teacher and private lessons are expensive.