anyone in the same situation as me..yr7

[joey263]

my dd was offered a place for yr7 at a school that was 3rd on her choices & we accepted it.. she is on the waiting list position1 at her 1st choice school..problem is the schools have opened & i dont really know what to do..no uniforms bought as i was hoping she would get into her 1st choice sch by the time schs open.
so at the moment she has not attended her induction day as she has no uniforms..what are my risks if i wait til she gets into her 1st choice sch without her attending sch???sorry its long but have tried my best to explain & hope i get helpful answers...btw im always a last minute person which doesnt help at all..

joey263...I am not an expert but if school has opened and she is on their register I would have thought she would get marked as unautherised absent=truant.

Your 1st choice school might not come up for ages ...mid term or even yr8 ...you cant keep her off forever ?

If she's on the register and not going then you're going to get chased for absences.

Phone up the 1st choice school/LA and ask where she is on the waiting list. Unless she's very high up and likely to get a place in the next week then you need to either HE her or send her to your 3rd choice.

Send her to school, or you may lose the place you have!!

Apart from anything else you could go DOWN the waiting list if someone moves into the area closer than you. being in the 3rd choice school won't affect your chance of getting a place at the other one.

You might, or you might not get a place at the other school - IMO you need to be supporting your dd to settle into the 3rd choice school. Keeping her off at the start of term and for induction will make it hard if she needs to stay there. The risk is a blazer, jumiper and tie.

You will be breaking the law if you continue to not send her to school.

I'd follow the excellent advice above, if I were you.

Poor child - induction days are so important. Being "last minute" is no excuse really. I'm disorganised and last minute, but I manage to buy a uniform and make sure my DC go to school.

What a shame. She will have missed the start of term whatever school she goes to.

I would have bought the uniform for the school she got the place at and sent her in TBH.

Being number one on the waiting list doesn't mean someone is going to obligingly give up their place for you; it could be years before anyone leaves .
Besides, as has already been pointed out, you probably aren't even still first reserve - there can be a lot of movement in the waiting lists in a relatively short period of time.
Get your finger out and send your dd into school ffs, I can't believe anyone would do this just to save the cost of a blazer...

Agree with others...

DD's school accepted their first child off the waiting list into her class over 3 YEARS after the cohort started there.... you really don't want to leave it that long....

You've been very foolish. Please buy the uniform and send her to school immediately. Or HE. When or if a place comes up at 1st choice you can accept then.

Poor dd. I am surprised you haven't already had a chasing call from the school you accepted to see where she was. If you haven't heard from them today, you soon will because they probably have people on their waiting list who want her place! Btw, I don't think what she missed was her "Induction Day", I think it was the first day of term! So everyone else now has their timetable, tour of the school, locker key, several classes under their belt etc and your daughter has missed out on all that. Get her a set of uniform quickly and get her into school.

I thought if you didn't turn first day and sent no reason why, the school would assume you have not taken up the place and offer it to someone on their own waiting list.

OP, has she gone to school yet? or did you get your1st choice sorted ?

Hope everything is ok as you haven't come back to update us ..