Graveney - DC of staff getting priority in new Admissions Policy - what difference?

[OhDearConfused]

Just wondering if anyone has any information on the likely impact upon an already small catchment of the change which allows children of staff to jump the queue.

I appreciate impact may be a couple of years away (since most staff need to be there 2 years to benefit).

Anyone have any views/guesses/figures from other schools?

Thanks. All makes sense.

I thought though that whilst it has only just been allowed, this is something that was historically allowed until removed (in mid 2000s by labour?). So there might be some info on what affect it makes.

Take the point it must be minimal though.

(The only way it could materially make a difference is if the school only appointed staff with secondary age children so that - very "Logan's Run" - with children who have left school - is "retired". Then if all of them - lets say 300 staff - had 2 kids then if my maths is right there would be 85 staff children at age 11 at any time! :) )

It's one of those policies that could have an 'amplification effect' where the number of places taken up under this policy balloon.

If a teacher gets their first child in at 11 and then changes jobs (having secured the place) the child's 3 siblings will get in in future years on sibling places. The original teacher's job is then taken by a new teacher who then does the same thing....and so on.

I can see why scgools wnat to do it, it's s Free school or Academy's dream marketing tactic - a school where teachers sned thier children - and is resonant of the discounts on fees that private schools give teachers.

I am quite glad if teachers have a personal stake in the wellbeing of children in a school, but I think it's a bit dodgy. In objective terms, what is the justification in allowing teachers' children to trump local children in distributing a publicly funded resource?

Exactly. There is a primary school in Lambeth where every year there is a row of 'To Let' boards in the same street as the school, they go up at the same time, every year. And every single family that moves in gets the first child in and then moves back to their nice house in nearby areas, and then the same flat hosts another family in the very next admission round who get 3 children in, and so on until the number of siblings is far higher than it would be if everyone stayed put.

At the secondary level I am always wary of schools that don't have many students whose parents teach at the school. It means the teachers don't think it is good enough for their offspring. Not a good sign.

empire - I didn't even consider my own school when looking for a secondary for my eldest as I worked a good 40 minutes away from home, his friends and peers. Our local school was good and he preferred to be with his friends, with the others that live near to us. Nothing to do with how good/bad the school I worked with was; in fact it was never even considered.

which is a good job, as I know how much a nightmare I would have been checking with each of his teachers in the staffroom about his behaviour etc!

Fair enough folks- I have always worked in schools with big catchment areas. I can see in cities with small areas it would be very different.