With their covering letter they have sent a copy of a letter dated February 2015 regarding Infant Class Size Appeals.
It states that:
"An Appeals Panel can only offer a place to a child where it is satisfied that either:
- The admissions of additional children would not breach the infant class size limit;
- The admission arrangements did not comply with admissions law or were not correctly and impartially applied and your child would have been offered a place if the arrangements had complied or had been correctly and impartially applied; or
- The decision to refuse admission was not one which a reasonable admission authority would have made in the circumstances of the case.
The threshold for finding that an admission authority's decision to refuse admission was not one that a reasonable authority would have made is high. The Appeals Panel will need to be satisfied that the decision to refuse to admit the child was "perverse in the light of the admission arrangements" ie it was "beyond the range of responses open to a reasonable decision maker", or a "decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied in his mind to the question could have arrived at it".
I went with the unreasonable decision option. I am terrified that I haven't got enough grounds to appeal and perhaps I should withdraw it?