Choosing a Nursery

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I live very close to an outstanding nursery school but I have decided I really love the one on the other more mixed side of town. In terms of popularity, the one I live near is much more sought after than the one on the other side of town.

I really don't want DD to go to the one close to me at all, much to my surprise I dislike everything about it. How do I best fill out my form? Shall I just choose the one I love as my first choice and then leave choices 2 and 3 blank?

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Is your worry that if you put in a second choice they are more likely to bump you off your first choice than if you left the second choice blank?

I can remember having the same sort of worry. I can't imagine that they would be as crude as that. But perhaps you ought to ask the local ed authority.

Does your preferred nursery get oversubscribed?

Thanks Threadie. Yes, that is precisely my worry. I think the one I much prefer gets filled up but I suspect is not over subscribed as a first choice. But if someone lives very close to the one I love but only has it as their third choice presumably they would get in ahead of me even though it's my first choice?

A lottery would be much fairer on everybody wouldn't it?

Hmm, I don't know -- which isn't a useful response except that it bumps the thread.

I hope that you are successful in getting the place you want, anyway.

I have this nagging worry that because I was feeling low the other week I may have 'overshared' in my last email, in a way that might make you decide you didn't want to meet me after all. I'm v. normal in the flesh -- no rl friends know that I get low. So if you were to meet me it wouldn't at all be a morbid draining presence. I just find the written word a bit too easily confessional I think. Which is lovely for me, but perhaps a little too much for the reader?

I feel rather ashamed about my angst over the nursery place.

Swedes - I wouldn't leave the other places blank. If for some reason you don't get a place at your first choice school, the LEA would then just allocate you a place at the nearest school with a space. Given that your nearest one is oversubscribed, you might be allocated one which you definitely do not want your dd to go to.

Visit a couple of other nurseries and put them down as 2nd and 3rd choices. I really wouldn't leave it blank.

Oh good re me being a wally.

Why ashamed re angst?

I feel bad that my feeling bad about your possible bad feelings about my saying that I feel bad has made you feel bad about feeling bad about nursery.

if your area does the solution the same way as around where i live if you meet the criteria and it is your number 1 choice you would be higher up the list than anyone who has put it at no 3 no matter where they live. i would put what you want as no 1. put the other one as no 2 maybe?

Littlefish and nowweare - Thank you both. I'll fill in all three choices.

Threadie -