Anyone have a solution/ideas????

[softfurnishings]

Can anyone help me find a solution. As I wrote yesterday... I want to keep my twins out of school until April (when they turn five). The school were amenable until they discovered that if the kids are not on the roll in January they loose funding for the year for both places.

I am in a difficult position. I have plans for the next four months, including two trips, and do not wish my children to attend school now. I do not think it is in their best interests. It is my legal right not to send them. Yet I do not wish to deny our school funding. (I realise that this could happen to a school if someone dropped out mid year or filled a space late etc, but this is an oversubscribed school with a long waiting list... this would not happen). The school needs the money and although I shouldn't be pressurised I also do not want to unintentionally shaft my children's prospective school.

Is there a solution? Or a compromise? If I suggest the kids go three days a week until they turn five what does that mean for the yearly funding? Will the school just get two thirds funding for the rest of the year? Is the funding calculated on their status in one particular day in January - what if their status changes after that date? And how much money are we talking about?

I think that you should stick to your original plan, the school has many ins and outs to its budget, ie special needs, armed forices children, this is just one complication of many

the only worry is if you might lose your places, if you have the places then stick with your plans

you wont get that last year with them back..!

I'm not sure, but I do know that, when older children flexischool (ie attend part time) the school still gets full funding, so I don't see how this would be different.

Sense of fulfilment: not any more apparently.

What a strange slip with your name!

If it's an oversubscribed school with a waiting list, do you think it's really fair to use up a place and potentially lose the school funding? Sorry to be blunt but it sounds a bit selfish. I'm off to read your other thread in case I have missed something...

If you stick to your plans, what school will you get when you return from your travels?

What's more important, going on the trip, or getting THAT particular school?

Might it be difficult getting what will be an in-year transfer for twins?

Then again they haven't been teaching your twins for the first 2 terms of the year, so they're not exactly loosing funding. They're not getting funding and they haven't taught your twins.....

I wouldn't worry about it. I'd defer until April. Accept that school will be a bit miffed, and expect them and you to have forgotten about it by April when they start.

Kids come and go all the time. It's a big school. Funding for 2 kids won't break the bank for them.

(And then be really supportive and involved in the school, pta etc when they do start...)

Surely they will just give the places to the next people on the waiting list?

If you defer till April will the school actually keep the places open? If they are not getting funding for your children, I suspect they will withdraw the places (if not taken up by January) and offer them to 2 other children. I'd also be worried (as the school) that you won't take the places up at all so they are holding them for no reason.