LONDON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A working-class Scottish family living on disability payments has had its fourth son accepted into the prestigious Royal Ballet School in London.
Robert Clarke, 48, is a former steelworker who was permanently disabled in a head-on car crash, yet has had community support for his dancing sons in the small Scottish city of Airdrie, 12 miles east of Glasgow, the Sunday Times of London reports.
Monday, his 11-year-old son Reece, begins training on a full scholarship at the London school that only accepts 12 new students a year. He follows in the footsteps of brothers Ross, 23, Russell, 18, and Ryan, 12.
Their mother, Ann, said it's a mystery as to her sons' attraction to dance.
"I don't know why it happened. There were no ballet dancers in our family before," she said. "They were just normal boys, climbing walls, playing football same as everybody else -- except they loved to dance."
