School Place Thieves  (78 Posts) jojo28 Wed 24-Jul-13 11:18:58
I had to bite down hard on my fist when I read this in the
Independent. I have had first hand experience this year of
Camden?s ineffective response to parents seeking to circumvent
the oversubscription criteria of our local school.  The head
teacher and parents with children attending Eleanor Palmer
School nursery alerted Camden?s admission team to parents who
had moved out of their family homes into rental flats next door
to the outstanding school to ensure their applications were
successful.  Despite being given a considerable amount of
information about these families cynical plan to jump the queue,
the council came down firmly on their side. Camden declared that
as long as the families were living in the rental flats at the
time of their application was submitted the parents would be
awarded places, even if that meant honest parents whose homes
were genuinely closer to the school lost out. Camden had left
themselves with little option having