Let down over schools difficulty

In February of this year my four-year-old child was very unhappy due to being bullied in his nursery school.

Needless to say that this knocked his confidence and it has taken a long time to get him to where he used to be emotionally.

Because of this we decided not to send him to the infant school that is attached to the nursery as the bullies would also be attending.

He moved to a fantastic one in Hadley Learning Community, as the procedure for reporting bullies was not followed by the previous nursery and Telford & Wrekin Council.

We asked Telford & Wrekin Council if he could go to his second choice school which was the Hadley Learning Community. We were told that we would have to go to appeal - which we did.

I have to say that despite our strained circumstances the appeal was a complete waste of time.

Both my son and his sister go to the same nursery and moving him will cause us extreme difficulty as they would have to be in two places at the same time, and the fact that I have mobility problems adds to this.

I have to say that the appeal was a joke and I felt that the committee did not take our situation seriously or sympathetically.

We were led to believe that if our son was to wait until the January intake we would stand a good chance of getting him a place in the HLC.

They have now back pedalled on this and we have been told that he will very likely have to find another school as he is still third on the list. So I would like to say thanks to Telford & Wrekin Council for their lack of understanding.

I wonder if they will tell our son that he cannot go to the same school as his friends. Are there any other parents that feel that the system has let them down in this way?

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