I am sitting here on tender hooks waiting to find out what schools my 11 year old twins will be attending for the next 5 years. I have a boy and a girl, and would like them to go to a mixed school. In our borough there are no mixed schools so had to apply for the independent schools which meant both our children sitting a test. We were told we had 6 choices for each but couldn’t find 6 that we would be happy to send our children to. And a couple we have put down are single sex schools, which given a choice I would abolish (I know others will disagree). But I feel part of life’s education is being able to understand the opposite sex’s to.
Do we really have a choice?
Join the most popular community of UK swingers now
Login
Secondary schools..do we really have a choice?
I sympathise.
My step daughter was offered one of the worst schools in teh country and I fought tooth and nail to get her a place in a reasonably good school. Unfortunately that happened to be single sex, not perfect but a darn site better than the Cannon Fodder Comprehensive they allocated her.
I moved out of London into Kent before my other kids reached secondary school, solely to ensure they would have a decnt choice in state education. That plan has worked out rather well.
If you need to appela there are loads of resources on the WEB that will help.
Good luck
My step daughter was offered one of the worst schools in teh country and I fought tooth and nail to get her a place in a reasonably good school. Unfortunately that happened to be single sex, not perfect but a darn site better than the Cannon Fodder Comprehensive they allocated her.
I moved out of London into Kent before my other kids reached secondary school, solely to ensure they would have a decnt choice in state education. That plan has worked out rather well.
If you need to appela there are loads of resources on the WEB that will help.
Good luck
Quote by benrums0n
I sympathise.
My step daughter was offered one of the worst schools in teh country and I fought tooth and nail to get her a place in a reasonably good school. Unfortunately that happened to be single sex, not perfect but a darn site better than the Cannon Fodder Comprehensive they allocated her.
I moved out of London into Kent before my other kids reached secondary school, solely to ensure they would have a decnt choice in state education. That plan has worked out rather well.
If you need to appela there are loads of resources on the WEB that will help.
Good luck
Thanks Ben! Letter has arrived we are so lucky got our first choice the independant mixed school.
Our eldest son went there so we are very happy parents today.
But sadly I bet there are parents that are not as fortunate as us. I do feel for parents that have a battle on their hands!
You have to fight all the way to get what you want, my daughter was also offered a place in a really bad school, a school that was known for its high level of bullying, where teachers had no control over most of the kids and that had had several head teacher over a period of about 3 years because none wanted to stay, i told the education board i refused to let my daughther go and kept her off school till i got letter saying i was going to court for not sending my child to school, which is what i was hoping for as i told them i was prepaired to go to court and tell them i wasnt prepaired to send my daughter to any old badly run school for the sake of sending her to school and that it was their fault i didnt want her to go as they was offering me a shcool of unacceptable standards and i was also prepaired to go to the local papers over it, it did'nt get to court they offered me a place in the shcool i wanted in the end.
My daughter got into the local comp that I wanted her to go to 
but we had applied to the local academy as well but it was a second preference so we were unlikely to get a place anyhow.
I'm pretty much of the opinion that choice is a bad thing, if you value your child's education but the local school isn't up to standard then it is down to the parents to start making a noise!
If exams results aren't very good, then why? How accountable to local parents are schools? If there is a history of bullying then parents need to get involved more in the running of the school and push for results.
If more parents stopped being resigned to the fact that inner city schools have low exams results and get more involved, pester the powers that be etc, demand better teaching staff, more local business connections, and engage in childrens learning then the schools would be better all round!
Unfortuately far too many parents get their children into a "good" school and that's their part done in their child's education! And those that don't get their children into a "good" school or don't care have similar attitudes
but we had applied to the local academy as well but it was a second preference so we were unlikely to get a place anyhow.I'm pretty much of the opinion that choice is a bad thing, if you value your child's education but the local school isn't up to standard then it is down to the parents to start making a noise!
If exams results aren't very good, then why? How accountable to local parents are schools? If there is a history of bullying then parents need to get involved more in the running of the school and push for results.
If more parents stopped being resigned to the fact that inner city schools have low exams results and get more involved, pester the powers that be etc, demand better teaching staff, more local business connections, and engage in childrens learning then the schools would be better all round!
Unfortuately far too many parents get their children into a "good" school and that's their part done in their child's education! And those that don't get their children into a "good" school or don't care have similar attitudes
We got the letter telling us that our daughter had got in to the school that we wanted her to go to. Mind you we only put 2 choices on the form and the other was a Grammar school..... We had our fingers crossed that she wouldn’t get in there as the uniform alone was almost £300!! :shock: Not to mention the school trips every year, Japan, USA, Germany, Skiing to mention a few :shock:
Come September both of our children will be going to school’s outside our local catchment area as the ones by us are dreadful. Our son had to be moved last October because of the bullying and his grades had dropped. It got to the point where I was at the school every week complaining about something. After an incident where he was knocked out, that was the last straw and we moved him. He is so much happier now and in September they will both be at the same school.
For us it is a win win situation but having heard from some of the other mothers that isn’t the case for everyone.
Come September both of our children will be going to school’s outside our local catchment area as the ones by us are dreadful. Our son had to be moved last October because of the bullying and his grades had dropped. It got to the point where I was at the school every week complaining about something. After an incident where he was knocked out, that was the last straw and we moved him. He is so much happier now and in September they will both be at the same school.
For us it is a win win situation but having heard from some of the other mothers that isn’t the case for everyone.
I have found out that a friend of my daughters didn’t get an offer from any of the 6 schools on her list. She has now been given a school from the local government and as you can guess, is a school that is under subscribed it has a bad reputation and her parents are not happy. Our local government released that 93% of children had been offered a place on their list. She is one of the 7% that hasn’t. I feel for her and her parents, no parent should be in this situation.
We have been lucky as our daughter has been given the 1st choice she wanted and also the fact our son goes there too may have hepled a bit! Our friend's daughter has not been given either 1 of her 3 choices and they are appealing now... its so frustrating for them as it looks like she may have to travel further to school if they don't win the appeal :shock:
