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* How did Susan manage to enroll in Coal Hill in the first place? | * How did Susan manage to enroll in Coal Hill in the first place? | ||
:: Presumably much the same as any student would enrol in a school in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, albeit with a certain amount of time-travel and future-tech facilitated forging of documents and fudging of background details going on. She was likely presented to the school as a recent arrival to the area (which is true after a fashion), and as Coal Hill appears to be a local state-run school they would be required to accept her so long as there was a place free for her (all children between the ages of 5 and 16 are legally entitled to a free education at a state school in the UK). | :: Presumably much the same as any student would enrol in a school in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, albeit with a certain amount of time-travel and future-tech facilitated forging of documents and fudging of background details going on. She was likely presented to the school as a recent arrival to the area (which is true after a fashion), and as Coal Hill appears to be a local state-run school they would be required to accept her so long as there was a place free for her (all children between the ages of 5 and 16 are legally entitled to a free education at a state school in the UK). | ||
:: It would also likely be easier for the Doctor and Susan to fudge several of their background details at that time, as records were mainly in paper form and would be a lot harder to access than they are in modern days when information is electronically available. This is also coupled with the fact that many records would have been destroyed or lost during the Second World War and its aftermath, which is around when Susan would have been born had she actually been a young teenager in the early 1960s; any gaps in her paperwork would be put down to the war or the confusion surrounding it. | |||
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