One of DS's long-term primary school friends has just started a very good comprehensive in another borough which takes 99% of its children from
local , catchment area feeder schools. DS's friend did a week of fun activities at the end of the summer hols and made a good friend, only to have him leave on Day 2 of the Autumn Term to take up a place at one of the local(ish) superselective grammar schools.
Presumably this was the usual case of someone having held onto a place for their child, something better came up and they didn't inform the grammar school concerned.
It is just such poor show really, isn't it? So many desperate children chewing their nails all over the summer hols just waiting for a place, psyching themselves up to got to a school which is maybe not their first option and then being offfered a place just as they've started to settle and more importantly once their parents have shelled out a fortune on uniform ;-(.
Think schools should fine parents who do this - of course there might be some exceptional circumstances which require last minute change of plans, but it seems from previous threads on here, that this is a fairly regular occurrence.
It's just not cricket is it?
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To think it's just bad form to not inform a secondary school that your child won't be showing up on the first day
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gazzalw · 09/09/2012 08:04
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