Hello
I am unbelievably stressed and any advice would be greatly received.
We completed and submitted our application form for DS secondary school on 28 October - three days before the deadline.
On 14 December I accidentally logged into the e-admissions website instead of DS school to check his dinner money account. Once logged in, to my absolute horror, I saw “application not submitted”. I could not believe it!
I immediately re-submitted the application and emailed the LA e-admission team and explained what had happened - their response was simply that the application is late and will not be looked at until after 1 March (National Offer Day) when all on time applications are processed.
I emailed the Headteacher at DS school, who emailed the head of admission’s and asked that under the circumstances our application could be considered as “late with good reason” but this was refused.
There are three decent schools near us and one bad one, which always has spaces left. As our application will not be looked at until after 1 March, it is inevitable he will be offered a place at the bad school.
I am distraught. I haven’t spoken to DS about this - he is going to be crushed!
We will obviously appeal but not sure on what grounds.
Has anyone been in this situation before?
Any advice would be appreciated!
Many thanks,
NH78