Admission into Slough grammer schools - CAF and Appeal

[target14]

Recently came across the through some parents that, Slough grammar schools offered places to the children who qualified in exam but not opted in CAF form. What I came to know that place was offered on request.

Share your views/inputs on this and it will help for next year and following year parents.

Thanks in advance

[Guest55]

Sorry your post is unclear - please explain what you mean.

[ToadMum]

Actual, real places, buy uniform,turn up first week in September and find you are on the school roll - not just people not understanding that being told their child had passed the exam does not constitute an offer of a place?

i.e. illegal?

[Stroller]

The original post is very unclear. Might the scenario be as follows?

• A child sat the Slough exam and got a good score (= child "who qualified in exam").
  The parents did not name the school on a common application form at the end of October; possibly they didn't submit a CAF at all (= "not opted in CAF form").
  In March, the child was not allocated the school for which they had a good enough score. Maybe they got no school (no CAF = no state school); or perhaps they were allocated a school they didn't want or even list at all. [Btw, that is what happened to 150 children near us in March 2015].
  After some discussion, the parents realised that their child's Slough score would have been enough for a selective place IF ONLY they had applied for it by naming that school on the form.
  The parents asked to go on the waiting list for the selective school (= "request").
  The child's score put him/her at or near the top of the waiting list.
  They were offered a space when someone else turned down a place (= "place was offered on request").

[Stroller]

Or, reading the title again, maybe they reached the qualifying score, but the school was oversubscribed, so they didn't get a place. Then they went through the appeals process and were successful?

[ToadMum]

The original post is very unclear. Might the scenario be as follows?

• A child sat the Slough exam and got a good score (= child "who qualified in exam").
  The parents did not name the school on a common application form at the end of October; possibly they didn't submit a CAF at all (= "not opted in CAF form").
  In March, the child was not allocated the school for which they had a good enough score. Maybe they got no school (no CAF = no state school); or perhaps they were allocated a school they didn't want or even list at all. [Btw, that is what happened to 150 children near us in March 2015].
  After some discussion, the parents realised that their child's Slough score would have been enough for a selective place IF ONLY they had applied for it by naming that school on the form.
  The parents asked to go on the waiting list for the selective school (= "request").
  The child's score put him/her at or near the top of the waiting list.
  They were offered a space when someone else turned down a place (= "place was offered on request").

I like my Shades of Educational Skulduggery scenario better, but your suggestions are probably more likely

Perhaps the new day will bring enlightenment.