Buying a house next to busy road

[WTFH]

Spoken like someone who can see an empty threat when I see one.

Where was it stated it was a private school ? Most COE schools are not private schools.

Sorry, my mistake. They are not "private", but "Voluntarily Controlled" (2,500) or "Voluntarily Aided" (2,100). Completely different.

[dx4100]

Did you read the article. The school had a reduced intact for ks2 or year 3. And the selection criteria for that would allow for awkward parents to be removed - heck as I governor I changed the admission criteria continually to solve gaming...

Still can't find that article....

This perfectly highlights why I don't like academies, free schools and the nomads running them. But even for these schools there is still a requirement under law for their admission criteria's to provide fair access and so on.

Talk of removing "awkward " parents speaks for itself to be frank.

If you to come up some cock and bull admission policy that includes removing kids based on nothing more on how they travel to school then I would imagine you are going to find yourself in court pretty dam quick as soon as the child in care can't come anymore or the kid in a wheelchair.

Good luck with that

[vetran]

They are oversubscribed they can choose who attends within reason.

If they choose children of people who don't drive like twunts near the school over people who have been to pray to their imaginary friend this week I'm not going to argue. Though I suspect discrimination based upon religion will be unacceptable soon.

[sasguru]

Buy a house on the next road to a road in which there is a private school.
Sorted.
That way you can walk your kid(s) to school and not worry about the traffic on your road.
Oh and your kid doesn't have to deal with thick chavs.
Oh and it helps if you work from home too ...

[WTFH]

Buy a house on the next road to a road in which there is a private school.
Sorted.
That way you can walk your kid(s) to school and not worry about the traffic on your road.
Oh and your kid doesn't have to deal with thick chavs.
Oh and it helps if you work from home too ...

But if you do that, where will your wife park her 4x4 when she drives them to school? Tarquin and Shardonnay can't be expected to walk more than 10 metres.

[d000hg]

There are B roads and B roads.

In regards to the school that would be a bigger worry than the road.

Although you might find the ability to have your kids walk to school - with you and alone as they get older - is worth the price of school run traffic. Not all schools are like this, you'd be best to go there at the right time and see how congested it is by the house in question.

bus for a 1 mile walk bimey

1 mile walk on a B-road with no pavements in the dark/rain, possibly having to carry things, adding 20 minutes to your commute each way doesn't sound unreasonable if there is a convenient bus!

[dx4100]

They are oversubscribed they can choose who attends within reason.

With the bolded bit being the issue...

[bobspud]

Still can't find that article....

This perfectly highlights why I don't like academies, free schools and the nomads running them. But even for these schools there is still a requirement under law for their admission criteria's to provide fair access and so on.

Talk of removing "awkward " parents speaks for itself to be frank.

If you to come up some cock and bull admission policy that includes removing kids based on nothing more on how they travel to school then I would imagine you are going to find yourself pretty dam quick as soon as the child in care can't come anymore or the kid in a wheelchair. Good luck with that

Interestingly our village is divided into the old original housing stock with a newer leg from the 80's. They moved the school from it's original site and built a nice shiny new one in the new side of the village. Last year they decided to expand the village further. As a result of the placement of the new housing. It will be entirely likely that parents living in the original houses will be too far away from their village school to get a place. (rules are pupils that are closest to the school get first places)

For most of the time that our kids were at the school, the parents ran a walking bus that collected the kids up the road and then walked them across the main road and through the quiet little estate to keep the numbers traffic down.

It's not unreasonable for the school to consider who is admitted based on the disruption to the wider area. If it turns out that little Jonny is being bused into the area in the back of a Porsche Cayenne driven at full speed by a mad psychopathic bitch in jodhpurs, who's only intention is to jettison the poor little sod as fast as possible so she can get to her horse/gym class/coffee morning faster then why shouldn't her environmental impact be taken into consideration?

[dx4100]

Interestingly our village is divided into the old original housing stock with a newer leg from the 80's. They moved the school from it's original site and built a nice shiny new one in the new side of the village. Last year they decided to expand the village further. As a result of the placement of the new housing. It will be entirely likely that parents living in the original houses will be too far away from their village school to get a place. (rules are pupils that are closest to the school get first places)

For most of the time that our kids were at the school, the parents ran a walking bus that collected the kids up the road and then walked them across the main road and through the quiet little estate to keep the numbers traffic down.

It's not unreasonable for the school to consider who is admitted based on the disruption to the wider area. If it turns out that little Jonny is being bused into the area in the back of a Porsche Cayenne driven at full speed by a mad psychopathic bitch in jodhpurs, who's only intention is to jettison the poor little sod as fast as possible so she can get to her horse/gym class/coffee morning faster then why shouldn't her environmental impact be taken into consideration?

Lost you a bit there... But if little Jonny is too far away to get a place due to the reasonable admission policy based on distance from the school, who cares how he gets to the school he can't come to anyway?

The point is he needs to go somewhere for school. Depending on the age of the kid, physical capability and distances involved walking might not be an option. Basing it on walking would be madness and totally unfair.

Ultimately you are confusing a number of issues. You would of thought the average contractor would understand the term, division of responsibilities and be capable to divide issues into it component parts - instead of just going all middle class Daily Mail.

If someone is parking wrong, its a the job of council parking official's
If someone is driving like an idiot, its the police
If there isn't enough school places, its the government
If parents can't get into a school within walking distance, is the government

What is comes down to is the want of certain communities to give a certain section of that community priority access to local education at the exclusion of the "awkard" ones. Such as the disabled, the poor or the people who have just moved to the village in that estate that hurt all their house prices.

Yeah I saw what you tried to do

[sasguru]

But if you do that, where will your wife park her 4x4 when she drives them to school? Tarquin and Shardonnay can't be expected to walk more than 10 metres.

I doubt Tarquin and Chardonnay would be at this school.
It's not expensive enough for the offspring of rich chavvy footballers. Thank fook for that.
But Hugo and Arabella might.