Proposed change to Harris Admission Policy

[Earl Aelfheah]

Just saw this from Cllr James Barber:

"ED Harris Girls Academy - are planning to change their schools admissions from banding with distance from the school to banding and a lottery. Please do respond to n.francis@harrisdulwichgirls copying me if you agree with this or not and why.

We think making admissions into a lottery will damage the wider local community."

This would effectively, no longer be a local secondary school.

[newboots]

Just like Kingsdale.

Perhaps people will now start to understand that there is a massive downside to schools becoming Academies and therefore entirely independent of each other, with no overseeing body (such as a Local Authority) making sure that local needs are best catered for.

[bawdy-nan]

Indeed, because fair banded lottery is not a bad way or organising admissions but only of all the schools in the LA are done like that.