We've just moved to a new area and my oldest DD is in Y1.
We're 150m from a decent school, but it is oversubscribed. We knew this when we moved here, but we have DD2 who is reception age in September so it's relevant for her as we'd like to send her there and obviously ideally DD1 eventually too.
As expected, DD has been offered a place at our third preference school, which is vastly undersubscribed (18 in Y1!) and may or may not be very good - there's a new head teacher which could drastically change things but who knows. It's much further away but not insurmountable.
Anyway, if we knew DD was top of the waiting list for the local decent school, I'd just home educate her until a place became available.
I got the letter offering a place on Saturday (dated 6th November, posted second class) saying we had ten days to accept this place, which gives me until Thursday to post the form.
I rang the council today (Hertfordshire, for the interested) to find out where she is on the waiting list. They won't give me that information over the phone due to the data protection act and people ringing up pretending to be others to find out information. Apparently I have to wait up to TEN WORKING DAYS before they will tell me in writing.. it's not that they don't have the info, it's just how long they take to respond to requests.
I need that information before I can make a decision over what to do about the school place she has been offered. Chances are good I won't know before the post leaves on Thursday, let's face it.
Right now I am leaning towards accepting it anyway but she's quite a sensitive child and I hate the thought of her being at a new school for a month or two before starting yet another new school. She's a person, not a statistic to be pushed around.
And if I accept it and then decline it later before she actually starts, I've no idea if that prejudices the continuing interest list or not. And of course if I don't send her when they expect her to have started, we will be done for truancy and so on.
Any thoughts?
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Need to make decision on in year admission place but without all the info I need
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MurderOfProse · 12/11/2012 12:39
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