could you advise for a friend please

[clog1985]

GHello. My friend little girl didn't get her school place she wanted. She will be 4 in August. She decided to keep her on waiting list on hope of school place a reapplying for reception next year year after her 5th birthday

She's had been told though that.. It's at council descreation as to weather they will put her in reception or year one. Becasue she has already applied for a reception class and had her name on waiting lists. She said she been told she will have to put an argument in to council as to why her child should have a place in next year's reception class instead of year one like other kids who she currently in nursery with now

She's wondering when she logs. Online in next round of admissions will it come up that she and already been offered a reception place and only offer her a year one place because she didn't take the one that was offered to her. She did actually put in to appeal but the silly woman has also decided not to show up for that also so surly. When council looks at her application for reception next year. This won't help her case. In not sure how it all works. She said if. Place opens up within this year's reception she will send her. Is the advice she has been given wrong?

Oh she's really shot herself in the foot then. Rule 1 is accept the offered place. That gives you choices. She's left herself at the mercy of the system now. The LA do not have to offer her a place except as a transfer or in year admission now and she doesn't seem to have grasped the rules.
Come next September she has to home educate or have her child in an education setting and she may find herself having to accept a place that is neither close to home nor desirable.
Poor child.

If they are small over subscribed schools then she is hanging onto a hopeless dream. Friends do not count at all in the admissions process. Poor child could end up at a school miles away with no local friends. Or no school at all. She's been offered a school. She said no. It was a local offer. She needs to home ed or go private

I did tell her she did a stupid thing. But she seems to think she will get a reception place for when her child turns 5. In summer of 2017.

She sticking her head in sand. And saying She isn't stressing about it. When really she should be because this isn't about her it's about her child she being selfish