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sad face article re placing requests

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PolkerrisBeach · 21/07/2018 09:29

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5975003/Mothers-fury-council-bosses-leave-battling-four-children-three-different-schools.html

Long story short - mother has placing request accepted for first child. Comes to apply for second child, placing request refused as school full. Place at catchment primary (which is geographically further away) offered.

Mother then goes to papers, moaning and whining about it. (Quite what the fact that she has two further older kids at secondary has to do with it I'm not sure).

This is the well-publicised risk of placing requests, everyone knows how it works so what on earth does she expect to happen? Glasgow City Council to magic up another space from thin air??

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dementedpixie · 21/07/2018 09:44

Fucking stupid catchment boundaries though. I was nearly in the same boat as our catchment school is further away than the one my dd got a placing request for. Ds luckily got into the same school as her this year through placing request

Groovee · 21/07/2018 09:47

Our catchment primary is the same. Just taking in catchment children from enrolment has them at 85. Any later moves into catchment and those out with on a massive waiting list.

However Edinburgh council closed schools in 2008/09 and then allowed house building! So it comes from there as they didn't think about the rising rolls!

prettybird · 21/07/2018 09:48

Indeed. She could always move her older primary school kid to their catchment school.

Or get her oldest child to walk one of the younger ones to school.

I agree that the fact that her 2 oldest kids are at a different school is irrelevant Confused; at secondary level, they are capable of getting themselves to school under their own steam.

dementedpixie · 21/07/2018 09:51

It's crazy when the catchment school is further away than other schools though. I would have to drive to get dd to her catchment school whereas she can walk to the school she got into on placing request.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/07/2018 09:51

I also agree she's being a bit deluded. Surely it is well known that there are no guarantees with placing requests, and that have one child already in the requested school doesn't put you to the top of the list...

dementedpixie · 21/07/2018 09:52

It is a factor in getting in (having a sibling at the school already)

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/07/2018 09:55

It is a factor in getting in

It is but not that high iirc.

Just checked, after catchment it's medical reasons, religion (for Catholic schools) then siblings.

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PolkerrisBeach · 21/07/2018 09:59

If you read it though she says it's impossible to move her 9 year old as it would disrupt her education and friends. Hmm

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prettybird · 21/07/2018 10:01

It puts you at the top of the 3rd (iirc) list: siblings come after looked-after kids and those in catchment.

Ds' old primary school (which was further away than our closest primary because of a dog's leg in the catchment which it was very happy about ) was at the point of having to reject sibling placing requests before it moved into the new building.

But the new building was still not built to take into account either the many placing requests or (and more unforgivably) the fact that many new houses had just been built across the road (with no other obvious school to house any kids that might end up there as the other side of the houses is waste ground, then motorway, then industrial estates Hmm) Confused

allyparade · 21/07/2018 14:46

TBH I feel sorry for her (although in no way condone going to the papers).

Quarry Brae and Dalmarnock are really quite far apart. If she is five minutes from QB it's a long walk to Dalmarnock along London Road.

Placing requests in the East End only started to be rejected in the past two years. When she originally applied for the oldest girl, no one would have ever thought a placing request could be rejected. (And depending on the wee one's birthday, she might not have been pregnant yet, so not considering siblings).

allyparade · 21/07/2018 14:49

the new building was still not built to take into account either the many placing requests or (and more unforgivably) the fact that many new houses had just been built across the road

The new Riverbank primary, being built in the athlete's village, is going to have exactly the same problems. I know Dalmarnock is a huge school and it has huts in the playground. QB, from this article, can't take all its catchment children. But there's thousands of new houses going up near this new school on top of that.

user1487194234 · 22/07/2018 15:14

I feel sorry for her But I suppose it is the risk you take with a Placing request
Difficulty is that while the way PR work is fairly clear the actual way it works can change eg in my are la kids on placing requests used to be able to transition to the secondary but as numbers have grown less have got in and this year no children were successful in gaining entry to the secondary Which is really what people want as the primaries are much the same
Lots of smug parents saying 'well fair enough they are not in catchment
But is it fair that some people can afford to move to catchment Disclaimer I moved to the catchment when I started TTC as I didn't want DC to o to school in Glasgow

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