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Fraudulent application

69 replies

pollyanna1098 · 07/03/2010 23:54

Hi - I am savage as my child has not got into our first choice school.
I know for a fact that a child has got a place on what I think is a fraudulent application.
This childs parents have divorced and the child spends 4 nights a week with her dad and 3 nights with her mum.
They have given the dads address as her primary residence.
Surely her mums address should be the official one ?
Am I right ?

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AitchTwoOhOneOh · 07/03/2010 23:55

what difference does it make, just one day?

heckythump · 07/03/2010 23:56

Uhm, no. Her primary address is the one she spends most time at. Why should that be her mum's?

heckythump · 07/03/2010 23:58

Actually, that isn't entirely correct. Her address is her registered address, be it her mum's or her dad's. If she spends more time at her dad's then I would personally assume that is her registered address. They do check these things, you know.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/03/2010 23:59

Yep. You sound pretty savage.
Have you got those days the wrong way round, or there is no case at all, is there?

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 07/03/2010 23:59

hang on yes, i'm just re reading, so she's at her dad's four nights? what#s te problem?

NoahAndTheWhale · 08/03/2010 00:00

Isn't it meant to be where the child spends most time? So in this case, her dad's address?

GypsyMoth · 08/03/2010 00:01

where is she weeknights and weekends?

HellBent · 08/03/2010 00:02

What are the 3/4 nights? If the 3 nights are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday then it would make sense to have the school where she spends the most weekdays.

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pollyanna1098 · 08/03/2010 00:02

The childs registered address/medical address and her mothers bank details are all still at their family home

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GoddessInTheKitchen · 08/03/2010 00:03

do you know what... i really don't think it matters does it? i realise that your child not getting a place matters to you but i don't think that singling out this one family is right, i mean its pretty close, it's one night, sounds like they have more or less 50 50 parenting and they had to choose one address of the two

CaitlinMeringue · 08/03/2010 00:03

how do you know this please

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 08/03/2010 00:04

it would be wrong of me to say suck it up, buttercup, wouldn't it?

TheFallenMadonna · 08/03/2010 00:05

So - the child spends more time with one of her parents than the other - the one that is the catchment for this school - but you think she shouldn't go there because...well, because you think your child should go there instead?

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 08/03/2010 00:07

is this what you englishers are reduced to? [glad not to be involved in this wacky system]

Original poster
pollyanna1098 · 08/03/2010 00:09

I know these details because I have talked to the mum

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thumbwitch · 08/03/2010 00:10

bitter, much?

sorry to hear you haven't got a place for your DC but you seem to be clutching at straws.

SofiaAmes · 08/03/2010 00:13

wow. You are evil.

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pollyanna1098 · 08/03/2010 00:15

I just want justice for my child .Should I bring it up at appeal?

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CaitlinMeringue · 08/03/2010 00:16

what do you intend to do with the information?

Confuzled · 08/03/2010 00:17

If the parents are, actually, separated, and there is shared residence, and one of those residences falls inside the catchment area, wtf are you on about calling it fraudulent? If they borrowed an address, or rented a flat they never actually lived in just to use that address, or bunged a brown paper envelope full of notes and a voucher for a stay at the Paris Ritz at the Head, now that would be fraudulent.

For the record, residence is a matter of fact, not registration. Some parents who have used bank details/GP at their own parents' and been caught have been refused places, and in fact one such mother in Harrow was charged, iirc. So you're wrong there, too.

I'm sorry you're disappointed, God knows I understand why you're disappointed, but to try to vent that disappointment on a 4 year old whose mum and dad have recently split up makes you sound - well. Neither pleasant nor fair.

Original poster
pollyanna1098 · 08/03/2010 00:17

Tell the appeal board that she shouldnt have a place because her mums address is outside catchment

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GypsyMoth · 08/03/2010 00:17

I think the appeal board would laugh at you!! Wouldn't get you far would it??

TheFallenMadonna · 08/03/2010 00:18

Is this real? Do you honestly think this child doesn't deserve a place at the catchment school for the home in which she spends most time?

Are you friends with her mother? IS that how you got the information?

Confuzled · 08/03/2010 00:18

Oh, and if you bring this up at appeal, I'm afraid they will think you a loon. Rather spiteful one at that.

Marjoriew · 08/03/2010 00:18

I can understand you being disappointed at not getting the place for your child, but I think it's pretty mean to try and deprive another child of a place just out of spite.