I would really appreciate some advice. The reason we have not gotten any of our three preferred choices is due to the fact that we failed to do an online application. However, we did submit a supplementary form in to the school because it is a faith school. Reason for no online form is that we did not know about it. No contact from LA and school did not do enough to inform parents imo. Each entity is passing the blame on to the other. Common sense would argue that if we were aware of online form we would have completed it seeing as we did the supplementary form. Both forms had same deadline, why do one and not the other?
The advice I would like is how to approach the appeal process. One bit of advice we had already was to highlight the above and detail how much more the school could have done to make parents aware and to highlight that the info they did give was not transparent enough. However, someone else said by blaming the school we will hinder the appeal and to focus instead on how detrimental it will be to our child if they fail to get a place at the school especially as they have a sibling in the same school. (we were written to by LA when sibling was same age) but on this occasion nothing. There is a six year age gap to be fair. Any advice would be much appreciated as we cannot afford a solicitor. Thanks in advance!
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Ninananoo · 08/05/2018 18:38
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