Secondary School Admissions for September - Page 10

emamum · 04-03-2008, 13:03

what happened to feeder schools? or are they only catholic schools?

flashy · 04-03-2008, 13:03

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Originally Posted by AccyLass27

So if the appeal falls through (obviously hoping it doesn't)
Your left with that decision?
And that's final?
Cos, like you said with Moorhead, about applying there
What if they are full?
It's a bit bad that you really aren't being given the choice

EXACTLY chelle, i know Moorhead ARE full at the moment, but like i was told yesterday, some kids wont accept the school and will be appealing for other schools, i'm just gonna have to fight till i get a good one

AccyLass · 04-03-2008, 13:12

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Originally Posted by flashytart

EXACTLY chelle, i know Moorhead ARE full at the moment, but like i was told yesterday, some kids wont accept the school and will be appealing for other schools, i'm just gonna have to fight till i get a good one

That's all you can do, so it looks like!

I think what they hope for, is for them they refused, that they will just accept it, and most of them will.
Maybe, and hopefully, the more you fight for his place/education, they will be willing to see why you don't want him in that school
If not allow him the place you wanted, but to at least compromise

flashy · 04-03-2008, 13:13

i aint accepting something i dont want

shillelagh · 04-03-2008, 13:42

BBC NEWS | Magazine | And the winners are...

Another bbc page but its interesting reading the comments at the bottom of the page.

flashy · 04-03-2008, 13:44

one of the replies

Hurrah! We got a place at a hugely over-subscribed girls-only school in Ware. We paid well over the odds for our house 2 years ago to ensure that we lived in the catchment area and it has worked. We have our first choice for our daughter! Hurrah!!!
Deborah, Ware, Hertfordshire

flashy · 04-03-2008, 13:46

here here

Would you put your child in a hostile environment, where bullying, abuse and ridicule are the norm, and the school inept at tackling the issues. Welcome to the inner city state schools. If you don't get the school you want it's tough! As parents we want to protect our children and, yes I would find God, rent a flat, camp outside the school gates if I though it would protect my children.
Kathryn, Manchester

AccyLass · 04-03-2008, 13:51

Certainly some comments there huh

Nickelson · 04-03-2008, 16:17

If you drag your heels and refuse to send your kids, no doubt they will make a place for you.

emamum · 04-03-2008, 16:19

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Originally Posted by Nickelson

If you drag your heels and refuse to send your kids, no doubt they will make a place for you.

Or send you to prison!!

Nickelson · 04-03-2008, 16:23

Doubt that with the overcrowding of the prisons but hey thats another subject.

Neil · 04-03-2008, 16:32

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Originally Posted by Nickelson

If you drag your heels and refuse to send your kids, no doubt they will make a place for you.

The school can fine you for not sending your kids

lindsay ormerod · 04-03-2008, 17:31

You won't get help with transport costs either if the school you have got into isn't the most local, my daughter goes to Haslingden High, we live in Accy, we get no help for her bus fares, if she had gone to Hollins she would have got a bus pass. It's my choice that she goes to Hassy and she is happy there, therefore I am happy to pay the bus fare.

jaysay · 04-03-2008, 17:45

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

You won't get help with transport costs either if the school you have got into isn't the most local, my daughter goes to Haslingden High, we live in Accy, we get no help for her bus fares, if she had gone to Hollins she would have got a bus pass. It's my choice that she goes to Hassy and she is happy there, therefore I am happy to pay the bus fare.

I can unerstand that lindsay, but I still think you should get help with transport costs, after all by sending your daughter to a school outside Hyndburn, it is in fact allowing another child to go to a local school. I would suggest that if you were a single parent not going out to work and paying your way and living of benefits, no doubt you would get all the help you required. By working and paying your way the powers that be should be more than willing to give you a hand with bus fares for your child

lindsay ormerod · 04-03-2008, 18:02

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I can unerstand that lindsay, but I still think you should get help with transport costs, after all by sending your daughter to a school outside Hyndburn, it is in fact allowing another child to go to a local school. I would suggest that if you were a single parent not going out to work and paying your way and living of benefits, no doubt you would get all the help you required. By working and paying your way the powers that be should be more than willing to give you a hand with bus fares for your child

You would think so but sadly not ! Though why she would need free transport to the nearest school is baffling, it's the wrong way round completely ; I am a single parent but I work full time , that's where the system fails me !