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Help - we need your "getting your child into the school of your choice" anecdotes please

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CarrieMumsnet · 08/10/2007 17:46

Hi all

We've been asked to pull together some anecdotes on the lengths parents will go to to get their child into the school of their choice. This could be prepping for private school entry or working the system to get to the local (or not so local) state school. We're hoping not to get into a debate about whether parents should or shouldn't do this (there's plenty of that debate raging most days in the education topic) but going for the more ridiculous and hopefully fun tales from the school front line.
So if you jumped through hoops to get into the school gates of your choice, please tell us about it here.

Thanks

MNHQ

OP posts:
hifi · 08/10/2007 18:21

one very self rightious mum had subsidence in her house, for the year it took to fix it they rented a horrid flat above a shop to get dd in most sought after school in area.if any one else had done that she would have been appaled, now moved back into house 3 miles away.

tiredemma · 08/10/2007 18:14

We moved house. only to find out afterwards that they had a low application number that year and so the catchment area had been extended.

We would have got a place at the school anyway, without having to move.

janeiteofthelivingdead · 08/10/2007 18:08

We moved house. We needed to move anyway, as needed a bigger place but we made sure that we moved to within the catchment area of a good secondary school. Best thing we ever did; and I speak as somebody who teaches in a "not so good" secondary school and din't think I'd ever consider "judging" schools - but hey ho, I'm obviously a hypocrite. I can live with that, as dd is clearly really happy.