I know that there will be plenty of similar threads in the past and no doubt plenty coming up soon - but I'm looking for some kindly words from fellow mums. We live in a little town that has two schools and one slightly further out. The further one is rural, tiny (only 12 places) and has a 50% CoE admission policy. It's our first choice because it's excellent and we're only 1.5 miles away. However, everyone else is v keen on it too and it currently has some 80+ applicants for sept 2017 intake. I know that, rationally, we haven't a snowball's chance in hell of getting in. We're not CoE, the rest of the town lies between us and the school (so they're closer) and the sheer pressure of numbers makes it highly unlikely we'll get in. Our second choice is also a very good school, very close, but weirdly undersubscribed for the past couple of years.
I guess I'd be willing to submit to the luck of the draw if I knew it was a fair playing field, but it's not. Three other couples I know have applied as well and have had their kids baptised and pretended to be faithful (CoE) every couple of weekends for the last couple of years to get in the school. There's a bit of me that commends them for the effort but I'm also shocked that people would do that.
I don't know what I'm trying to achieve with this post other than asking for other people's experiences and perhaps some consolation about the second choice being better in the end?!
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PlummyBrummy · 14/03/2017 18:47
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