Request a state school place if you want it or not

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This email is doing the rounds aimed at private school parents:

"The idea is to try to flood the Council with requests for urgent school places from September. If they get tens of thousands of emails like this we may see them under pressure."

Basically request a state school place if you want it or not.

who is sending this email?

What absolute selfish pricks.

i haven’t received one and two different private schools involved

Childish and selfish

What's it hoping to achieve?

Is this even legal? Requesting a place you have no intention of taking up?

So cause unnecessary stress on families who don't receive the school they were hoping and expecting whilst you piss around making a point? Nice.

It seems to have come via schools and parents who are disgruntled at the proposed 20% tax on fees.

As if there’d be tens of thousands!

Couldn't have put it better myself.

Hopefully, the councils will immediately see sense, and that the kids already have a school place elsewhere, so they will be put right at the bottom of the allocation list.

You can’t request an urgent school place from September anyway. You can apply for an in year transfer, and would be expected to take up the place within days of being offered it.

Fucking stupid. It's not state schools fault that people are going to have to fork out more for Private schools. Is the intention to fuck up state education even more?

i’m confused
you received the email? or you’ve heard a rumour? do you have children at private school?

Well in the area I live there are many many private schools and if each of those parents do this, that really is tens of thousands!

This is going to put so much pressure on our local state schools.

Lol. So imagine there are 50% of private school parents stupid enough to do this. That's 2% of the average year for primary and secondary. Which works out for 1 child for every 3 classes on average. Hardly going to induce panic. The flux between school years can be much higher than this. Especially given that the year on year intake is going down from children born after 2012. That's a decrease in every primary year.

In fact I know a headteacher and a deputy head in London who are gagging for more children as they are fearful that they are going to end up closing this will be seen as a good thing for them!

There was a thread about this last week.

The poster got handed her arse on a plate. If private school parents do this, then they are utter knobs.

My child’s excellent state school is really struggling to get enough students (it’s in a tiny
village, understandably most parents want to walk their kids to school rather than drive). We could easily absorb 3-6 ex-private kids in each year.

So, while many primaries are full, all councils will do is stick all the kids in schools like ours! Some will be excellent, some will be shit. But what this won’t do is have the effect you think it will.

This is what the email also says:

The only way a labour government will not follow through with this policy is if the NUT block it, and the only way they will do that is if they panic about how many children may switch to the state sector.

How utterly selfish to contemplate doing this

Sounds like scare mongering to me. Or OP is trying to get this thing going starting here.
Plenty of places for all these phantom children anyway.

Utter rubbish - don’t believe this urban myth one moment -just people trying to stoke the flames against those evil ‘private’ school parents.

exactly

it would seem op didn’t actually receive any such email and it’s a rumour or made up for the purpose of starting a thread

I’m at two Private Schools. This absolutely is not coming from the schools at all. In fact the school have barely communicated on an issue that isn’t an issue yet!

As a parent with a child about to start private school this is abhorrent. Vat goes to central government not the council who will have an administrative nightmare over this.

Also slight possibility it could disrupt another child schooling plans.

Labour are coming out with plans for the VAT revenue today - more nursery place and breakfast clubs so if they are budgeting for it people need to start tightening their belts and sucking it up ( me included).

As an aside I did notice that they plan to use the empty classrooms from falling birth rates for nurseries so I am not sure there will be as much space in schools for private school transfers as people claim but there is no stopping it.

Unsurprisingly sounds as if it's written by someone who has no idea of the actual challenges facing state schools.