Comments on: Pupils stranded by schools postcode lottery

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:13:23 +0000

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I have all of this to come and I am absolutely terrified. My daugher will be moving in Sept 2010. Apart from joining the masses trying for Laytmer, I just don't know to order my other choices and am scared that if I put them in the wrong order, we won't get anything! I'm in Hackney, but right on the borders of Islington & Harringey and I can't work out if that is good or bad. Any advice?

By: Amjad

Amjad — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:47:58 +0000

The government too should focus on problem like this. Children should be brought up in good educational environment, the better treatment they get in early stages the better will be their future and the parents

By: hattsie

hattsie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:19:45 +0000

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By: hattsie

hattsie — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:10:21 +0000

I'm a parent who's children didn't get a secondary school place and i will not be sending my children out of the borough, i have lived in hackney all of my life and i am so sad that my children did not get a place. i fill the way they have worked out the banding, cats test and so on is all wrong. i live near the Hackney Marches and my nearest non church school was the City even Hackney free is further for me but my children still didn't get a school. its not fair. i know families who have a better choice of all of the academy or decent schools because of where there live, your guaranteed a place no matter what why didn't any one consider the families that live a bit further out but still in Hackney. i am so upset.

By: rick

rick — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:27:00 +0000

As a parent who's child is going to a hackney secondary school in september i suppose we can be reagarded as being one of the lucky ones and we certainly know how stressful the whole application/transfer procedure can be. That said, i seem to remember it being made very clear prior to school splication that there werent enough school places in hackney for all the pupils and thats not going to suddenly change. With the general level of secondary schools in hackney improving fewer kids will be sent out of the borough so things may get worse before they get better. We cant be surprised or shocked that there arent enough places for the boroughs kids in the boroughs school because there never has been! Its just that in the past a huge proportion of kids left the borough. As for the idea that amademies are high performing school this is something of an illusion, with the exception of Mossbourne , no other acamdemies in hackney have had their SATS let alone the GCSEs so its impossible to say how they are performing. Brand new shiney schools do not guarentee success. I'd suggest people take a look Clapton Girls for an example of a succesful, school quietly going about their business and gradually improving.