Hi All,
As the thread title goes, my son was offered his sixth choice for y7 which we so did not want. Anyway we were gutted and I rang up the school we had chosen as first choice to ask him to be put on the waiting list. Well, the school rang me today asking if I had put them on the CAF and whether I had handed it in on time as they did not have my son's name on the list they received from their local authority and so were unable to offer him a place although they wanted to!!! I could not believe my ears, my son would have got into his first choice school had it not been for Southwark Council failing to inform Lambeth Council that I chose a school in their borough as first choice. WTF......All this stress because someone made a procedural error....
I chose two Lambeth schools so they only managed to communicate one of those which was my second choice and failed to communicate the other one which we desperately wanted. I am so cross it's unbelievable. The school I chose has ability tests as part of their admissions criteria and my son was on the top of the high ability band which meant that he would certainly have been offered a place. Naturally I am appealing but Lambeth have informed me that I might win or might not win as the fault is not the schools but my local authority. As it is I cant even put my son on the waiting list for that school because Lambeth were not informed.
Why have this stupid application process in the first place if human error can have such an awful consequence. I know people make mistakes but this is a big one, my son could end up going to an awful school and all I will get is a 'sorry'. I am going to decline the sixth choice and let Southwark sort it out. My son was not given a fair chance to be offered or refused a place because of Southwark admissions