Articles tagged "schools"

This week thousands of parents and children faced the elation or the despair of receiving their secondary school allocations.

Well done if your children or grandchildren got the school you wanted for them, but many of you will be extremely unhappy with the local education authority's decision and will be considering your next step. Appeal, settle, or find the money to send your son or daughter into private education.

Let me say I sympathise with you. My son has luckily been allocated his first choice, but it was a very different story two years ago with his sister. The education authority ignored all three of our chosen options and placed her in the nearest school to us. A school which had a dreadful reputation for educational standards and behaviour of the pupils.