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/ |