APPEAL- help!

[AvidLemonPoet]

Seeking advice about a Year 9 school appeal for my DD. She is currently being home-schooled as most schools cannot meet her academic level Her best friend attends the school (DD has been bullied and needs her support in school environment, they have always been a network of support for each other from a young age), she is not being challenged where she is now to an extent where she is refusing and having to go with encouragement, there is a lot of disruption in a mixed school, there are a lot of sports opportunities for females and music clubs (DD plays varies instruments and has a passion for music). Is there any chance? What points to include? I don't want to pay for a consultant. How do I defeat the idea of prejudice and lack of space/resources. They are over-subscribed.

Have you asked this before? I think I suggested music and sport might be best to focus on , assuming you can evidence her enthusiasm and skill level, and not her friend or academic level .

You need to specifically link the your points to that particular school. So she plays an instrument - how is that relevant to the school you are appealing, and what specifically does it offer that would benefit your DD? Ditto sport. Effectively your answering the questions of why this school, and why your DD?

Unfortunately a panel is unlikely to agree that your DD’s general academic needs can’t be met in any given school.

In terms of chipping away at the prejudice case, it depends on the strength of the school’s case. You don’t need to prove that there is no prejudice to the school, but that the prejudice to your DD is worse. You’re tipping the scales, not wiping it out.

Ah, yes. You’ve been given good advice on your other thread. I’d suggest taking that and building on it.

@AvidLemonPoet a word of warning about the "best friend" line of argument. Panels may view it inappropriate to place the burden of supporting your child on another child.

I’ve seen another thread on exactly this very recently. Lots of good advice there. I’m not sure if this is the same OP but it sounds the same.
You can’t expect the best friend to act as responsible for your child OP.