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Secondary School allocation day

174 replies

seeker · 02/03/2008 23:06

Is anyone waiting to hear tomorrow?

Just wanted to say it's a horrendous but you're nearly there! And it'll work out all right in the end even if you don't get the school you were hoping for. Good Luck!

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UnquietDad · 03/03/2008 12:50

Article on BBC site here

I like this quote:

"It would be hard to think of any other public service where stopping people getting what they want is seen as a desirable outcome. But parents in the school admissions process have got used to the feeling that the customer is always wrong."

GrapefruitMoon · 03/03/2008 13:35

DD's allocation just came through - got her first choice! (Though it would have been hard not to as we more than met the criteria)

Jockey · 03/03/2008 13:58

Feeling slighty shocked - we've got 1st choice (was expecting 3rd). Hope DS is pleased and that some of his friends have managed to get in as well!

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 03/03/2008 14:02

OK Kent mums - who's smug and got Twig/Skinners?!

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:05

Where are you folks who've got your outcome already?

swedishmum · 03/03/2008 14:11

Ominously I've just checked ds's online application. UNder my 3 choices has appeared Choice8: crappy crappy school. Really hope it doesn't mean anything.... He will definitely not be going there. And I know how crappy it is - they offered me a job recently - so I'm not going on heresay.

Posey · 03/03/2008 14:16

Waiting here too. Can check online from 8.30 in the morning, but keep checking just in case!
I too keep checking the printout of the application, thought I'd had a senoir moment and put dd's wrong year of birth, or that she was m not f, or puit down choices in reverse order...
Not sure how much I will sleep tonight...

SorenLorensen · 03/03/2008 14:21

Getting more gibbery as the hour approaches.

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:24

OK - finally built up the courage to look at the printout - ha,ha, I put the local school 4th!!!! And I seem to have managed to put the school ds hated in 3rd place - luckily we are miles away from choices 1-3 so we should still get the local school (I hope).

swedishmum · 03/03/2008 14:32

Off to do something useful before sec school run - we have a French exchange student this week and she's not allowed to use the school coach so an extra 40 miles a day for me. Hey ho! (Yes, it's the nearest appropriate school we just live in the middle of nowhere). By then I should be able to check result before poor ds gets back from football practice.
Anyone taken LEA to court over unsuitable school places??

OrmIrian · 03/03/2008 14:33

Still can't log on

Will have to wait till I get home and check e-mails. Friends 'who knows about such things' tells me that we'd have heard if there was a problem before now.

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:36

OrmIrian - are your results definitely online today? I've re-read our booklet and it says no online results until the 4th. This is in London.

OrmIrian · 03/03/2008 14:37

Yes they are. I rang up to see if there was a problem and they are supposed to be there now. E-mails sent out from first thing this morning, letters going out second class today.

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:43

Oh right - lucky you (or not so lucky as you can't log on ). I have no hope of finding out until tomorrow!

Jockey · 03/03/2008 14:43

QueenMeabhofConnaught - hi, I've got my result and I'm in Herts. For some reason, I STILL feel sick and shaky!

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:46

Not as sick and shaky as me, Jockey!

at you knowing already...grrr....

Glad you got a good outcome, though!

Monkeybird · 03/03/2008 14:48

oh god is it like this everywhere? DS only 9 but panicking already...

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:50

You might as well start now, Monkeybird, and give yourself plenty of practice at panicking.......

OrmIrian · 03/03/2008 14:53

The annoying this is that I wasn't panciking at all until I logged on to MN this morning. I am reasonable confident that DS will get into the school we chose - none of them are over-subscribed here - but the one we wanted is the smallest in the town so there's always a risk.

VanillaPumpkin · 03/03/2008 14:54

My brother went to Skinners. Good Luck everyone!

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 14:56

Fingers crossed, OrmIrian. I wish I lived in an area where the schools aren't over-subscribed!

SorenLorensen · 03/03/2008 16:06

Aaaarrrrrggghhhhh, buggering buggery councils and their buggering buggery computer systems.

I knew this would happen...3.30 comes and...nothing. Can't log-in to the online admissions service, it's "down for essential maintenance" (ie., it's crashed under the number of people trying to log-in at half past three). And no email.

They post out your letter to offer a place second class...what's the betting I won't know til Wednesday?

I am going to cry. Or scream. Possibly both.

bundle · 03/03/2008 16:07

good luck everyone

QueenMeabhOfConnaught · 03/03/2008 16:08

Is the letter sent 2nd class - I didn't realise - great .

SorenLorensen · 03/03/2008 16:08

It is in Cheshire, QueenMeabh.

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