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Appeals question

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LucasNorthCanSpookMeAnytime · 14/05/2014 11:20

If I deregister my DD from her current primary school, would the panel find out? Not that I would lie about it if asked, of course, just that I'd rather not mention it if it doesn't come up anyway :)

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LucasNorthCanSpookMeAnytime · 15/05/2014 09:18

DD is a school refuser at her primary (she's Y6) and she wants to go to this secondary school. Case centres partly on this (but I'm unsure whether her own preference is a strong enough reason by itself). The other part of the case is that she has separation anxiety (all documented and backed up with evidence) and won't cope with being separated from her friends. But my concern is that if I deregister her then a panel would think "but if being with her friends isnt' enough to keep her in primary then why would it be enough to keep her in secondary?" Whereas if I don't de-reg her then I can say that she is still trying to back to school to be with her friends (all of which is true, but HT is putting me under pressure to de-reg and I'm trying to decide whether to or not).

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admission · 14/05/2014 21:42

It could be that this is something that absolutely you need to bring up. If the pupil is a school refuser now in the primary school but has expressed a wish to go to this particular secondary school then with the right evidence to back up the claims you could have a half decent case to take to appeal.

lougle · 14/05/2014 12:47

I'm thinking to appeal documents I've read (we hand them in after hearings and all but one copy gets destroyed) and I am sure that part of the bundle contains the current school attended.

If you have deregistered her because of school refusal I would absolutely want to know about it. Obviously, the more evidence you have of this school refusal and any steps to overcome it the better. Presumably your case is that it is this school she is refusing rather than 'school' itself? Remember that you are appealing for another school, not against this school.

What year group is your DD?

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LucasNorthCanSpookMeAnytime · 14/05/2014 11:42

Thanks, Lougle. Though it sort of does have a relevance to our particular case (school refusal etc). Oh well, I will have a think about it.

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lougle · 14/05/2014 11:26

They may ask you where she currently attends -it's a fairly standard opening question. It wouldn't affect your appeal unless you tried to use her having no school as leverage for winning your appeal, though, in which case the panel would probably think you were bonkers!