School being set up by wealthy city types "snubs" poorer children

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I saw this headline in the shops today - article is here. If what it says is correct it's terrible, surely. Does anyone know anything about it? Aren't there any rules about how these new schools can choose their pupils? It all seems very strange.

onimolap - It does if we pass a law saying it does.

But that is a sledgehammer to crush a nut. We just have to withdraw our funding unless they adopt statutory admissions requirements.

Well run sites generally don't fail though. Even council ones - agin it's not a technology one - it may be a management one, but it is by far the smallest of the difficulties. Access is a bigger one - but that 60% with no access is vastly skewed - the figure for families with school age children will be much smaller.

btu even then, what you are really doing is option 4 - places by lottery as that's all that where you are in the queues when 30,000 other people hit submit is anyway.

So have everyone write in, then pull the names out of a hat. Same difference.

Expropriation of assets is a very dangerous legal precedent.

They'd withstand removal of funding - closures, probably and flogging off the sites to a developer.

I'll take your word for the robustness of sites, improbable though it seems to me.

The overall figure might be lower (source?), but within that, those who don't have access will be the most disadvantaged. I would be IMHO an unfairly discriminatory policy.

I don't support lotteries either.

I would stick with the existing system; and look to examples such as Mossbury for improvement of provision.

The feeder school system is unfair in all forms so I can't get too excited about this TBH. Our nearest secondary has a number of feeder schools but excludes one of the nearest primary schools meaning that local children run the risk of not gaining a place on the distance criteria.

Onimolop - sticking with the current system may well be the best course of action. but we should stop pretending that it's fair or that fairness is one of it's goals.