Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Landmark school admissions ruling for Haringey mother.
Pupils cannot be denied a place in their preferred schools simply because they are full, a court ruled yesterday.
The landmark High Court judgement is likely to give hope to thousands of families who challenge the schools they are allocated each year before independent appeals panels (IAPs).
In the case, the mother of an 11-year-old girl took her battle to London's High Court after an appeal panel rejected her choice of secondary school because it was full.
The mother - referred to as M - wanted her daughter (MC) to be educated away from her London inner city neighbourhood and its problems of crime and bullying. The mother had applied to a popular and oversubscribed school but she was rejected by Haringey's schools council admissions service.
The ruling means M and her daughter are entitled to a fresh hearing before the IPA.
This was the first High Court case to examine provisions of the new schools admissions appeal code 2009. It will provide guidelines for parents and education authorities in the future.
More on the ruling here.
The landmark High Court judgement is likely to give hope to thousands of families who challenge the schools they are allocated each year before independent appeals panels (IAPs).
In the case, the mother of an 11-year-old girl took her battle to London's High Court after an appeal panel rejected her choice of secondary school because it was full.
The mother - referred to as M - wanted her daughter (MC) to be educated away from her London inner city neighbourhood and its problems of crime and bullying. The mother had applied to a popular and oversubscribed school but she was rejected by Haringey's schools council admissions service.
The ruling means M and her daughter are entitled to a fresh hearing before the IPA.
This was the first High Court case to examine provisions of the new schools admissions appeal code 2009. It will provide guidelines for parents and education authorities in the future.
More on the ruling here.
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Permalink Reply by BBL on
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My tongue was in my cheek, but obviously it didn't translate here. Maybe I should have used an exclamation mark, to indicate that I wasn't being wholly serious, but I try to use them sparingly.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Their families tend to be poorer - that's how it ususally works out
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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In Freakanomics they found that they only real indicator was whether the parents had books at home. Going to the library was not good enough and reading with your kids was not a factor.
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"Heartlands High" - I'm taking bets 35% - 45%.
We all know our options, it's just that as time goes by they pare down considerably.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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I've been a governor so understand what you're saying but, there are only a handful of governors per school so this is only an option for a few. Most parents are relying on a good if not very good system of education being delivered. There's only one chance for each child and everyone of them should get it.
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Permalink Reply by Julie on
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Improve the kids and you improve the school. However this is a twin track approach. Work really hard with the kids you've been given (a no-brainer, as they say) and also attract the ones who want to get in at oversubscribed schools, at the same time. Not easy with an N15 or N17 postcode, where, as parents of ten year olds believe, there is something in the water supply which makes children automatically violent, dim and frightening.
People inevitably want their own kids go to schools where there are lots of kids with similar values. Initially I suppose I would have wanted both mine to go to schools where all parents and all their offspring were educated, liberal, compassionate and ambitious. When I had to choose, there was no choice, fortunately. They went to Park View. One takes his GCSEs this year. The other left with 12 or 13 As and A*s and is currently at university. And they've both been nurtured and encouraged at a completely multicultural school. They've not been contaminated by going to school with kids who weren't as lucky as they are. Some of those kids are amazing young people (anybody met Shayan Moftizadeh, for example?)
From a union point of view (see my profile) any secondary classes over 27 are oversized. We have a longstanding agreement with the local authority on this. If NUT members want to protest, we can ballot for strike action. Why should any teacher mark 35 essays at the end of the day because a judge says the school can take more pupils?
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Thanks Julie.
Would be good to hear of other parent's experiences for their children going through (having been through) secondary schools within this borough too.
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Permalink Reply by Optique on
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This misses out Highgate Wood at 52% and in the east, Gladesmore at 50%. Range is 30-38% for other schools east of the tracks.
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/news_and_events/latest_news/gsce-s...
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If you have an eleven year old going up to secondary school, you can't assume that the school's results, for the sixteen year olds who left last year, will reflect what your child will when s/he's gone through five years at that school. Parents are very often five years behind the times, at least, on where the 'best' schools are.
League tables can sometimes tell you where things are in decline or improving. They can tell you where the special needs kids aren't getting proper help. If all the able children get bussed out of the borough or up to the White Highlands, it's not surprising the schools in Tottenham don't seem, on paper at least, to do as well as the ones in the east.
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I agree. I went to a supposedly crap school (of the two in town). In the year before me 3 people went to University. My year 40 people went to University. The year after I think 5 people went to University.
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Permalink Reply by PeterPiper on
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You had a choice of 2 crap schools?
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