Hi,
My son has failed to be given any of our choice of schools and they have randomly selected a school 8 miles away from home, with no direct bus routes or school bus available, the shortest time we can find on google maps for him to get there during morning times is 55mins using a train, bus and walk. My son has never been on public transport alone, he is a very shy, nervous child as I just do not think it would be possible for him. I could drive him there but the traffic that way in a morning would take around 50 mins and I am due to have another baby in 5 weeks time. Trying to get everyone up and out would be near impossible and I when I go back to work things would get even worse.
Our first and second choice of school his friends are going and both have a school bus route right past our house, one is only 2 miles away and the other one 3. Our first choice of school is 5 minutes from where I work also.
My son is distraught as there's only him from his year group that hasn't got into one of the two schools. He's extremely academic and wants the best education for himself which I feel this school he's been selected really cannot provide.
This is our first child at secondary so feel completely out of my depth here and unsure as to what to state for our reasons of appeal apart from the obvious distance.
We live on a new build estate and are wondering if they even got our address wrong for the distance of the school provided!
Any advice would be greatly received.
TIA
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jesslou · 02/03/2019 09:40
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