Secondary school appeal advise.

[PonderingButterfly]

Can I swear , its almost midnight and I want to shout " Fckng d*ckwads" to school admissions and vent and wake my kids and neighbors up. And it'll be totally worth it. I want to act like a juvenile right now.WHY?

For those of you who have children off to Secondary/high school in September, this week you'll receive confirmation of an offer. I happened to receive mine at 11:30 (who the fck does that), yes I'm a super sour lemon right now. I almost had a heart attack before bed.

Here I am ranting, I applied to 6 schools of course the first preference is the school I highly want my daughter to get into. Guess what, I get the very bottom of the pile . I wished now I didn't fill in all 6 preferences. That was my huge mistake, humungousaurus mistake. At least if I had 3 they will have to offer me one of the 3.I'm blubbering like a petulant child right now. I read google reviews on the school and almost jumped out the window. It is appealing..stabbings..lack of safety..the list goes on. Being a party pooper I had to break the news to my OH who is now fuming at work.

We had high hopes that my daughter will get into one of the top 3 not because we fall within the schools radar but we ticked all the boxes and are high in the can I say guaranteed place. Yes a priority, we tick all the boxes. I gave in the form on the day application began and also giving the following SIF to the relevant schools.

At least they were nice enough to say my daughter will be put on the waiting list. Not!

Now I don't know what to tell my daughter in the morning. We have been waiting anxiously for the results. What a great birthday gift this will be for her.

Mumnetters, what would you guys do and how do you think I should appeal. Shall I accept it, well obviously will have to otherwise she won't have a place. But then, hopefully even if its full , God willing not all applicants will accept.But if its our first preference ticking all the boxes and been shot down and given the bottom pile as an offer.Do we even have a chance?

I need a vice right now.But a hangover mum on a weekday is probably frowned upon. Maybe I should go for a run or just drop to the floor and throw a tantrum.

Thanks for replying. No we didnt provide any evidence.we did not mention anything about his cancer.
We are new to this and very confused to the reference of admissions policy? The school has facilities for students physical and learning disabilities

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We are new to this and very confused to the reference of admissions policy

Your LA will have a book on its website giving details of the admissions policies of all the schools in the area. This will tell you who gets priority for admissions at each school. Some schools give priority to those with medical needs, some don't. Does the school you want give that priority?

As SoulAccount says, if you want detailed advice you would be better starting your own thread.

To update you guys. I emailed the LA admissions and this is what they said :

Yes unfortunately children subject to a special guardianship order would have to be under the care of a local authority (‘Looked After’) Immediately prior to the SGO to be awarded that criteria.

We have come to terms with it and we've explored the offered high school further and we are okay with it.

Good luck to those who are making an appeal.
Thank you to all for all you're inputs its been a massive help.