quick appeal?
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:52 pm
Hi, I'm new to this forum and am now wondering and worried that my appeal was possibly rushed.
I had an appeal for one of the grammar schools recently and was the last one of the day at 9pm. The panel had been going since 7am that morning I was told!
Although I arrived well prepared with what I beleive were geniune mitigating circumstances, I was expecting to be in much longer than what could have been no more than 8-10 mins or so.
I didn' t complete my presentation before the chairman began to ask questions , all of which I answered. I wasn;t asked to sum up at the end either. Everyone was polite and curteous however but it did feel like we were being rushed and they wanted to go home.
A friend of mine had her appeal with a different panel and was in there for 35 mins with plenty of time to present her case.
I;m now feeling like we may have just been dismissed without proper time to elaborate, however, my husband is reassuring me by stating that all our evidence is written in our appeal letter which they will have read and read again even if we didn;t cover everything verbally.
Am I worrying for nothing?
I had an appeal for one of the grammar schools recently and was the last one of the day at 9pm. The panel had been going since 7am that morning I was told!
Although I arrived well prepared with what I beleive were geniune mitigating circumstances, I was expecting to be in much longer than what could have been no more than 8-10 mins or so.
I didn' t complete my presentation before the chairman began to ask questions , all of which I answered. I wasn;t asked to sum up at the end either. Everyone was polite and curteous however but it did feel like we were being rushed and they wanted to go home.
A friend of mine had her appeal with a different panel and was in there for 35 mins with plenty of time to present her case.
I;m now feeling like we may have just been dismissed without proper time to elaborate, however, my husband is reassuring me by stating that all our evidence is written in our appeal letter which they will have read and read again even if we didn;t cover everything verbally.
Am I worrying for nothing?
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