Had my son baptised twice

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I had my child baptised in a Church of England church when he was 6 months old as this was something that my husband wanted to do and as a lapsed Catholic I had no strong feelings on the matter. As our child begun to get nearer to school age we looked at the primary schools in the area, and secondary schools also and the ones they we preferred him to go to are Catholic. I also childmind from this school and have 5 children before and after school which go to thei school.
I decided to begin going back to Catholic Church and eventually after attending for around 6 months had my son baptised a Catholic.

We applied for a primary school place at the catholic school and yesterday found out he hasn't been offered a place, we live on the doorstep and as he is a baptised child I was confused as to why until I spoke to the school headmistress and was told they they have discounted his baptism certificate as they know he has already been baptised before and therefore you cannot be baptised twice so they have to discount the second, Catholic time.

Does anyone have any experience with anything like this as I am wondering if there is any point in my appealing this decision?

What are the actual admissions criteria and where did they place your DD?

No. You didn't have your son baptised twice. He was baptised once, and then you tricked a priest in to doing a ceremony with water and oil, and tried to use this second, invalid ceremony to lie about your religion.

If you can't even recall the creed, you are a very lapsed 'catholic', and the church are probably correct to think that none of you are, in fact, catholic Christians anymore. The Anglican church would also not advocate 'second baptisms'.

You tried it on. You got caught. I would burn with humiliation, apologise to all involved, and move on.

Wasn't there a TV programme about something like this? I think there may have been a murder involved? (Possibly of the person who found out they were lying.)

Anyway - loads of people have asked how the school found out - the answer is simple - God told them

Or Option B - the person who checks these things out was invited to the CofE baptism.

Or Option C - they put the photos on an unprotected FB account.

It's a bloody stupid system anyway where schools can select on the basis of a bit of water sprinkled on the child's head. Fair play to you OP for trying to subvert it. No state school should be allowed to select pupils on this basis. No exemptions from any legislation for faith schools.