My appeal: Parmiter's no. 1

My ds was being assessed for possible aspergers/dyspraxia at the time of the appeal. His small group of friends were going to Parmiters. We felt (correctly as it turns out) that he would find the transition to secondary very difficult due to his social and physical problems. They had a group of similar children they were admitting and their pastoral care is outstanding.

Evidence from school and doctor to confirm.

Result: appeal failed.

Parmiter's appeal no. 2

My dd was ill immediately after the test, doctor's letter to confirm. Evidence to show she was level 6 in all core subject from the school and therefore underperformed in test.

Result appeal failed.

Tense - WGSB / Parmiters are two of my local school, Ricky is not but we applied due to their specialism as at the time we felt they had a lot to offer our child. That said I live within ten miles of all the schools mentioned..... How many Kids are allowed to apply to schools much further away! - but yes this is a different debate.

I did not major on what the other school could not offer I emphasised the strengths of the school I wanted and why my Son would fit in both socially and academically I only concluded that my DS would be prejudiced if he were to attend his allocated school as he nothing in common with anything the school had to offer.

At the time I was employed to write winning business cases for presentation to directors of a major PLC so without sounding big headed my presentation would have been good!

Watmum66 - not sure it is still around but a similar case was posted on the appeals board last year (I will see if I can find it!).

Toony, Hello again! Glad you have joined in . Hope your Children have settled in well?

Found this from Last year......

watdad and tooney thankyou for your posts I am sure they will help other's decide re appeals. IMHO I thought you both had strong cases.
Does not look like an appeal for the family I know will work thanks for finding the thread from last year.

Hi, watdad

I do remember your case, and sincerely hope we didn't do anything to give you false hope a year ago. My first posts to you were:




Having set the ground rules, as it were, we then tried to help in putting forward the best case we could construct.

However, even a very good case isn't necessarily going to work if you come up against a strict panel.

I do urge you and Toony to consider providing a report on Appeals:
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It won't get buried, which is what will happen here, but will remain on view as a sticky (or we could transfer it at some point to a Herts Appeals section in the Q&As).

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Etienne

Etienne

Please do not get me wrong I am not trying to imply you didn’t help…..

I am merely trying to make the point that the ‘usual’ debates for what ever reason do not work and that anybody appealing in this area goes into it with their eyes wide open.

I did say they advise I received was very helpful and well intended although as stated by yourself there is very little knowledge of how it works with the Herts consortium. Thanks for your help I only hope I can help others learn from my experiences.

I know 3 families that won their appeal at R last year, all from my son's primary and to put it quite harshly, the panel must have found their cases/situations more deserving.

Here's an explanation of (part of) the appeals process from an extract of the extremely useful appeals stickies - worth reading in full;

b. Stage 2 is sometimes called the “balancing stageâ€

Last year toony was saying (based on undisclosed sources) that Ricky normally let in 8-10, but only 1 out of 60 succeeded at Parmiter's.

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