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Appeal on bullying grounds and welfare

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Boxneeds · 03/05/2017 13:29

Hi all.
We are preparing to go to appeal for our daughters secondary school. Schools in our area arnt the best but the one we applied for is very good and too us we have no other option. We fall just short of the boundary lines for the school. We are basing are appeal on grounds of bullying and welfare. Our daughter has had trouble with pupils in her current primary who are going to the allocated secondary school and pupils who our currently attending our allocated secondary school.
She has been victim of bullying and threatening messages from both sets of pupils. This escalated over the half term with us having to file a report to the police regarding incidents involving the pupils towards our daughter and our family members including threatening behaviour towards a 75 year grandad. She went back to school but we had to collect her as she was suffering a severe panic attack in which we had to call an ambulance as she couldn't speak a correct sentence and simply was scaring us to death.we have since removed her from the school and preparing to go to appeal stating that we are not prepared to let her near these people when she goes to secondary.
We are getting police reports, doctors/ambulance reports and asking the school for anything they can give us.
Any help or experience would be grateful as this is such a worrying time.
Thanks

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admission · 03/05/2017 17:48

Saying some pupil is a victim of bullying has now become more or less a staple reason for an admission appeal, so panels will not give this a high weighting unless you can come up with some very concrete evidence of the bullying.
From what you say this would apparently be a case where you can adequately prove the issue exists. More weighting will be given to your filing of a police report and especially any reports from the police and medical reports rather than other information. The other difficult situation is that the panel needs to be convinced that the pupils who are dealing out the bullying are going to the school that you have been allocated. Again any police report naming names would be useful to be submitted.
I would however as a safety measure also try and make out a really good case for being given a place at the school you want because that is what the appeal is about, not the poor school you have been allocated. Some of that can be around good pastoral care at the school etc

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