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I wish I knew .... about my local secondary schools before I applied.

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WFMum · 22/09/2014 13:20

I am interested in what other parents have found out about their child's secondary school which they wish they knew before the child started. My friends son is unhappy that they have to pray three times a day at his catholic school. We did not know that before.

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KittiesInsane · 22/09/2014 14:16

It was never a choice, just a preference. Frankly, round here, you have the one-the-bus-goes-to, and there has to be a damn good reason for any other choice.

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WFMum · 22/09/2014 13:48

Unbelievable!! Random selection?!! What happened to parental choice?

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TinyPawz · 22/09/2014 13:44

I'm surprised that there is only prayer 3 times a day in a Catholic school. I attended a Catholic school and there was prayers at the start of each lesson (9 per day), registration, lunch and at the end of the last lesson at home time.

littleducks · 22/09/2014 13:41

I havent applied yet. But the all girls school at the end of my road is filled by random selection. All other schools in the borough are filled by distance....

mummytime · 22/09/2014 13:33

Well before I filled in the form last year I would have liked to have known that the Head was retiring from our first choice (even worse that we would personally know the new Head - but to be fair they didn't know that he would be it then). Fortunately we got our second choice, which also had changed how it was doing MFL, so we got to choose our preferred one after all.

TranquilityofSolitude · 22/09/2014 13:22

That your child could only do one language, and that they would be put in either French or German and would then only be able to do that one up to GCSE. I did 3 languages at O level and it never occurred to me to ask this. All the talk at the time was about 3 sciences.

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