BBC Information, South East
The comic Romesh Ranganathan has hit out at his native council after his youngest son didn’t get provided any of his most well-liked decisions in his secondary college placement.
Mr Ranganathan stated he had emailed West Sussex County Council six occasions after his son had been positioned in a college “on the opposite aspect of city”, and never on the similar college as his elder two brothers.
He stated he had obtained no response and his native MP, who agreed to analyze, had been advised the council “cannot do something about it”.
A council spokesperson stated: “We do not touch upon particular person issues, however we acknowledge the frustration when college students can’t be positioned at their first selection.”
Mr Ranganathan, who hosts A League of Their Personal and a Saturday morning present on BBC Radio 2, stated he was notably offended as his elder sons have been already on the college the household had chosen as his youngest son’s first selection.
Taking to social media, he stated he had emailed the council six occasions however had had no response, regardless that different mother and father had obtained replies.
‘Greater than disappointing’
Describing what occurred after he took the household’s case to his MP, Mr Ranganathan stated: “I wait two weeks, they arrive again and say, ‘West Sussex has seemed into it. They cannot do something. They’ve performed an investigation of their placement process they usually discovered it to be passable’.
“I wager they’ve. Then he stated to me, ‘I am certain it is disappointing’. It is greater than disappointing. It is not the soccer, it is my son’s college placement.”
Mr Ranganathan advised the BBC: “They did not give us any of our most well-liked faculties. As a substitute they put us in a college that wasn’t any of our preferences and is the opposite aspect of city.”
He stated it was not possible for them to just accept the allotted place as a result of they’d be unable to get their kids to totally different faculties up to now aside every day.
“We have two youngsters who’re being educated on one aspect of city, and one other who’s being educated on the different,” he stated.
“Wanting placing one in all them in a cab, I do not know the way it works.”
He stated the household had the fitting to enchantment, and would now should go on the ready listing for another college place.
The council spokesperson stated: “We are going to all the time work with households to make sure an acceptable college placement could be discovered.”
The council stated 87.1% of pupils had been provided their first desire secondary college and 96.9% of all candidates have been provided a spot at one in all their three preferences.