I have to choose my son's secondary school by October. We basically have a choice of 2 notorious, failing schools in special measures. My son is quiet and sensitive and it will be like sending a lamb to the slaughter. He gets picked on at primary school now so secondary will be hard enough for him as it is, without sending him to a daily war zone. I just can't do it, I'm not willing to do it.
My partner lives in the catchment of 3 very good schools. He has suggested we use his address to get ds in to one of them. Chances are we will be moving there sometime in the near future anyway but not before DS starts secondary.
As I said, I'm supposing nobody will be willing to help me cheat school admissions but it's worth a try. What do I need to do? Are we likely to pull this off? The other schools are not massively subscribed and I know of lots of people who have got into them without people checking up etc. Just that you have no chance if you're not actually in the catchment area. Especially when your catchment schools are so under-subscibed.
Can anyone advice me on this?
Please don't reply with a load of abuse, I'm just trying to do the best thing by my son.