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Topic: Gaming the admissions system
Posted by: Michael Sterne
Date/Time: 10/08/14 11:25:00

Free schools, academies and church schools all decide their own admissions criteria. It's quite possible for such a school to game the admissions system and ensure that its intake has a much smaller proportion of disadvantaged children,children with social difficulties and less able children than its neighbours.  Such children are easier to teach, easier to manage and perform better than children admitted to neighbouring schools.  Here are two websites demonstrating how it is done.  It's rather more complicated than schools rejecting children from deprived backgrounds.  It's a matter of ensuring that few such children meet the admissions criteria.

http://disidealist.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/harris-the-hero/

https://humanism.org.uk/2014/07/15/landmark-ruling-schools-adjudicator-finds-london-oratory-school-admissions-policy-racially-socio-economically-discriminatory/


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                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 12:09:00 Thomas Barry
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 12:11:00 Russell Pearson
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 12:44:00 Vanessa Smith
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                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 13:24:00 Sam Hearn
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 13:39:00 Vanessa Smith
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 15:42:00 Sam Hearn
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 19:08:00 Steve Taylor
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 20:19:00 Vanessa Smith
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I do belieeeeeeve it!08/08/14 20:31:00 Steve Taylor
                                             Gaming the admissions system10/08/14 11:25:00 Michael Sterne
                                                Re:Gaming the admissions system10/08/14 13:27:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                Re:Gaming the admissions system10/08/14 18:38:00 Frank Dacey

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