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Daughter's school dilemma

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Lilyloola · 14/08/2024 20:46

I wasn't sure where to post this, hope it's okay here.

I'm in a bit of a pickle and would appreciate some opinions/advice please!

Three weeks ago I left a domestic abuse situation. I left very suddenly and didn't have anything planned.

I've come to stay with a family member, hours away from where we were previously living.

However, my daughter is due to start school in September.
My family have been extremely supportive and they are helping me find a home, which my father is helping me with financially until I get settled ect.

It's only a few weeks until school starts. We won't know where we'll be living before then, I sincerely doubt.

She has a place at a school about twenty minutes away because, a while ago when I was considering leaving, someone I know offers to rent me a house in this village. So I applied for a place and had that plan all ready.
However, that plan fell through a while ago as she is now selling the house so i can't rent it.

Do I:

Send my daughter to this school twenty minutes away where she has a place, knowing I'll probably have to move her after a couple of months? Or also try and find another house to rent near the school. It's not likely I don't think.

Try and find a school near where I'm staying now. She'll have to leave there too but it will be nearer..I don't even know if you can get a school place in a couple of weeks

Any other ideas?

I know she doesn't legally have to start until she's 5 but she's so ready and excited.
I'm upset she'll probably have to start and then leave soon after. I need to start getting uniform and I'm so stressed out. I don't know what's best to do.

OP posts:
NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/08/2024 22:23

Lilyloola · 14/08/2024 21:08

Would the school let her there though if she doesn't live in catchment? I've not told them yet that I'm no longer moving to that village. But then again if I found something within catchment I wouldn't have to move her at all. But I don't know the chances of that

They can't withdraw a place once it's been accepted outside fraudulent applications.

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