ALLOCATION OF SCHOOL PLACES IS A LOTTERY

More Chance of Winning The Lottery

It will soon be that time again, when many families will be disappointed because they did not gain entry into their school of choice.  The thought of appealing is not even an option to some people, as the whole appeal process is intimidating and stressful.

The current allocation system for school admissions is suppose to be fair, but many parents are left feeling like their child's future depends on not what you know, but who you know.   .

How does a child who gets the highest level you can achieve in Yr 6  SATS and the only child in the class to get all level 5's.

Yet he was the only one in the class who was not given a place.  The only difference between the child and the other pupils, is that the child is mixed race.

Natalie Anderson, mother, from Liverpool said: "I have a strong suspision that the reason he was not accepted is because of skin colour.  When the school had its Open Evening there was no ethnic minorities present."

"I also went online to find an OFSTED report and out of 998 pupils, one per cent was black and the other pupils was white."

Only recently five families have been going between schools because their children did not get a place in the school that their siblings already attended.

Just having a brother or sister in the school  doesn't mean you automatically get a place for your other children.  These parents now have to be at two different schools without their child being late.

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IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL JUSTICE

Crime and Punishment 

The British Justice System has been laughable over the past few weeks.  How you justify tagging a 66 year-old grandmother, for selling a goldfish to a 14 year-old boy is questionable.  If the woman was a threat to society or committed a violent crime, then two months being tagged and a curfew would be appropriate.

Have the police got nothing more important to do, such as finding murderers, rapists and peodophiles.  This would be a productive way to keep the British public safe, not staking out and arresting old women.  The Judge should have thrown this out of court.

Whoever gave this case the time of day at the police station and in the Magistrates Court needs to think about whether they are in the right job.  Surely common sense is something that the Magistrates and police should have used when dealing with this woman.

If one incident is not bad enough, there has also been an auctioneer who was fined £1000 for selling a cabinet which happened to have ancient birds eggs inside.  The police unbelievably had a search warrant and took the man to the police station where he was fingerprinted and swabbed for a DNA sample.

The owner of the cabinet was also interviewed by police, but not charged.  Lucky him.

Here is proof that the justice system has its priorities all wrong. 

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  A woman who let her 15-month-old boy die in agony in his urine soaked pram was allowed to go free.  The woman and the baby's father cannot be named, were found guilty of manslaughter but the woman was spared jail because she was left at home with seven children and no money while her husband was out gambling.

• Teenage  rapist was sent to jail for just three years because he said sorry.  The boy was 13 at the time of the attack and was spared a longer term because of his apology.   

• A nursery nurse was fined £60 for holding an apple in her hand as she drove.  Police battled to bring her to court using potographic evidence taken from a helicopter, plane and patrol car.

• A yob who battered a dog to death with a hammer was given a community order and was tagged.

• A 29-year-old woman was fined £50 because her son dropped a piece of banana out of his pram.

• Two boys and two girls who beat and tortured a boy with learning difficultiies was given community orders of just 12 to 18 months.

• A 39-year-old man was fined £60 for not being in control of his vehicle when he blew his nose in his van.

sources of above infomation Daily Express Newspaper