We didn’t get our first choice for the junior school for my son. Should we appeals and what are our chances?
My son is currently in an infant school and normally all the kids in his school will get accepted in the next door junior school. This year a quarter of the kids didn’t get through and almost all are appealing, so reduced chance for everyone.
We have moved to this village 3-4 years ago, it has a very close knit community and it took us ages to be able to find our feet and make local friends through school and for our son to settle in school. We are a family of three with no relatives in the entire UK and all we have is our school community.
He is offered a place in a school in the next village , so all our efforts to settle in is lost.
My son, is suspected to be somewhere in autism range but not diagnosed so we have no medical evidence . However, he is not as emotionally mature as other kids his age, even though academically he is great- we have had such a difficult time in the past year that we debated getting him to a psychologist a few times and just because of Covid we thought we should wait. I am worried what will happen if we change his community, given how difficult it was to settle first time. Specially as the school he got a place in is a primary school, all kids are coming to junior together.
Yes He has no siblings in the preferred school as he is the only child, but All he ever has is his friends from the school .
Do you think we have any chance of success if we appeal and would you appeal if you were me?
I am sorry for long message and Thanks so much in advance for your help
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MamaNaz20 · 17/04/2021 18:01
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