Secondary School Admissions for September - Page 15

Margaret Pilkington · 07-03-2008, 22:22

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Originally Posted by flashytart

thankyou for this Margaret, it's rather fitting for post 201

You are welcome!

blazey · 08-03-2008, 05:11

I feel sorry in general for those who have been left disappointed, dont get me wrong, particularly if your child didn't even get into their second choice, but I find it hard to feel sorry for someone who is annoyed at where their child got put when they only put one choice down. Surely its common sense to know that schools can get oversubscribed and they cant have everybody, so it's wise to put in a security choice?

How can you complain if you dont put down other preferences? It basically just looks like you dont care where you get put if you dont get into the first choice.

flashy · 08-03-2008, 09:15

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Originally Posted by blazey

I feel sorry in general for those who have been left disappointed, dont get me wrong, particularly if your child didn't even get into their second choice, but I find it hard to feel sorry for someone who is annoyed at where their child got put when they only put one choice down. Surely its common sense to know that schools can get oversubscribed and they cant have everybody, so it's wise to put in a security choice?

How can you complain if you dont put down other preferences? It basically just looks like you dont care where you get put if you dont get into the first choice.

eeee and again, carry on, i'm loving you even more now

howarth · 08-03-2008, 18:58

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Originally Posted by flashytart

lol i dont want any publicity

I feel the same nida,I went to Rhyddings yesterday, and asked if they had received an application form from belthorn primary, regarding a place at rhyddings for Jack, and they hadnt !! ( wot a surprise ) I then went on to tell them my tail, about jack being offered a place at Blakewater College

Anyway they also confirmed to me the conversation that they had with our sec at belthorn the otherday,about their only being 10 places left at Rhyddings and that i had 1 for jack

Im just waiting for it to come throught the post to confirm it as i wont settle till i gat it in black and white !!! lol
How ever i got a letter this morning to say i got a place for jake to start belthorn in sep

one down one to go lol xx

flashy · 08-03-2008, 19:17

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Originally Posted by howarth

I feel the same nida,I went to Rhyddings yesterday, and asked if they had received an application form from belthorn primary, regarding a place at rhyddings for Jack, and they hadnt !! ( wot a surprise ) I then went on to tell them my tail, about jack being offered a place at Blakewater College

Anyway they also confirmed to me the conversation that they had with our sec at belthorn the otherday,about their only being 10 places left at Rhyddings and that i had 1 for jack

Im just waiting for it to come throught the post to confirm it as i wont settle till i gat it in black and white !!! lol
How ever i got a letter this morning to say i got a place for jake to start belthorn in sep

one down one to go lol xx

ah i'm really glad you got it sorted out Em, thats great news hun

howarth · 10-03-2008, 11:36

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Originally Posted by blazey

I feel sorry in general for those who have been left disappointed, dont get me wrong, particularly if your child didn't even get into their second choice, but I find it hard to feel sorry for someone who is annoyed at where their child got put when they only put one choice down. Surely its common sense to know that schools can get oversubscribed and they cant have everybody, so it's wise to put in a security choice?

How can you complain if you dont put down other preferences? It basically just looks like you dont care where you get put if you dont get into the first choice.

Blazey may i ask how many children you have ??

emamum · 10-03-2008, 12:30

Just herself.........

lindsay ormerod · 10-03-2008, 12:52

Sounds like a lot of people didn't get their first choice this year, a friend of mine put Haslingden down for her daughter, they live near me and their daughter is at Peel Park same as Kelsey was, yet she hasn't got in, she has her second choice of Hollins.....odd.
They are appealing against it as she has family at Haslingden.
Also been told that BRGS have changed their admission policy, previously the child sat the entrance exam and you had to put BRGS down as your first choice before the exam results came out meaning that if the child then failed the exam you had wasted your first choice and other schools don't look too favourably on not being first choice !

Now you get the exam results before the forms have to go back, hence the huge influx of kids trying to get into Hassy high !

howarth · 10-03-2008, 13:25

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Originally Posted by emamum23

Just herself.........

lol that figures

blazey · 10-03-2008, 13:57

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Originally Posted by howarth

lol that figures

I'm 19 Howarth, and whilst I am from the local area, I do not conform to the social norms...

Sorry if I'm not enough of a chav to share the same views as the rest of the population.

lindsay ormerod · 10-03-2008, 14:20

So are we all chavs now?

When did that happen?

Where's my Burberry?

lancsdave · 10-03-2008, 14:22

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

So are we all chavs now?

Reading between two threads I think that just got upgraded to fascist chavs

blazey · 10-03-2008, 14:34

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

So are we all chavs now?

When did that happen?

Where's my Burberry?

My point was more along the lines of the population who fall into my age group. The majority of the people I know from school now have children, some got pregnant whilst still in school.

Though yes, fascist chavs does sum up a lot of people on this forum