School Places

[diddlepops]

Just following an article on GMTV. A couple are prepared to put their child into the care of an Aunt (guardianship) if the appeals process for getting their daughter into their choice of school fails.

Would you go to these lengths to secure the right school for your child? What is more important your child's welfare, i.e. living with their immediate family etc or their education?

Personally, I think they are wrong but that's my own view - what's yours?

[Jen]

yes i think that is wrong...but what the likelyhood of them actually living with grandparents...they will just use that address...and yes that is wrong too.

I would however move house if the school in my area wasn't suitable.

[Purplecat]

I was lucky and got DD into a good school, just on the edge of our catchment area. If my only choise was the local academy we would have considered moving as we don't want her to go there, it has a bad reputation, unhappy teachers and it spews out the nastiest, roughest kids in the area, DD already gets picked on by the kids who live in our street who go there, I would not want her to get picked on at school.

I know they say if a child wants to learn, they will, but the teachers have got to beable to help them.

Having visited both schools, I would not be happy to go to the academy but the one we've got her into is lovely, the children are polite and the headteacher has the repect of the children.

[Ravenfire]

No I think it's ridiculous doing that and I would rather move area to get my child into a decent school than have them not living with me.

[lisa_84]

No I think it's ridiculous doing that and I would rather move area to get my child into a decent school than have them not living with me.

couldnt agree more!

[loub]

totally agree it seems extreme and goes beyond hiring a house to have the correct address

[*debbie*]

i think people are mad...cant see whats wrong with sending your kids to the school that is closest to you :unsure: just because of these bloomin league tables

[bikemad]

When I was a kid you went to the local school whether it be good bad or ugly n you made the best of it-god one of the ones I went to was a dive n crap but I still left there the 3rd top in the year n got into Grammar School.

[Peridot30]

When I was a kid you went to the local school whether it be good bad or ugly n you made the best of it- .

Couldn't agree more Bikemad. Ds goes to our catchment school and no it doesn't have the best reputation or the highest marks on the league table(infact its one of the lowest if not the lowest) but the school has a fab feel to it. Teachers are all friendly and approachable, children are all extremely happy at school and it has a fab feel to it. The new head teacher has only been in place for the last few years and she has done wonders.

We went to our local school too and then on to the feeder high school. NO picking and choosing at what school you went to .

[Girlzmum]

I'm very lucky to live near one of the better schools in our area so I've never considered sending the girls anywhere else (my dad taught there for 20 years and my brother went there as well - it was all boys back then so I went to another school, that was my 2nd choice - although now I know that madam has 110 boyfriends I really should have sent her to an all girls school!)

[funkyfish]

Just following an article on GMTV. A couple are prepared to put their child into the care of an Aunt (guardianship) if the appeals process for getting their daughter into their choice of school fails.

Would you go to these lengths to secure the right school for your child? What is more important your child's welfare, i.e. living with their immediate family etc or their education?

Personally, I think they are wrong but that's my own view - what's yours?

I think they are wrong. I'd move if I felt so strongly about a school.

[CarerQuie]

Me too.xx