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When the Balogh family found out that their 18-year-old autistic son Adam would not be able to return to school in the Hungarian city of Szeged, despair set in.

Local authorities had ordered the closure of the church-run school at the last minute, saying its finances were too unstable.

“The school bag was packed” and Adam was “waiting to see his friends again”, his mother Mariann Baloghne Petnehazi told AFP.

“Then suddenly we got a message saying there is no school to attend.”

The sudden closure in August left 160 students — mostly children with special needs — scrambling for alternatives.

Adam eventually found another school, but parents still lament the closure of the “irreplaceable” John Wesley establishment, said Csilla Novakne Finta, the head of the parents’ association.

She said the school was exceptional because students with and without special needs were taught side by side.

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