{"id":20278,"date":"2018-03-13T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=20278"},"modified":"2018-03-13T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:05:35","slug":"council-is-ignoring-parents-in-schools-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/council-is-ignoring-parents-in-schools-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Council is &#8216;ignoring parents&#8217; in schools decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some parents in Cardiff say the council is ignoring them over a new strategy to decide secondary school places.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80% of those who took part in a council survey said they wanted secondary school places to be based on the primary school pupils attend.<\/p>\n<p>But the council is likely to approve a second option of pupils going to the secondary school nearest their home.<\/p>\n<p>Parent Renato Pequito said: &#8220;They gathered a few parents together for three or four consultations in our area and then they just disregarded our opinions. Whilst I can see it&#8217;s hard making such an important decision, it would be good to be more involved and to know the reason why the report basically ignored the consultations. It is very frustrating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 1,200 people who responded to the questionnaire, 79% wanted priority for places to be given to pupils at schools that act as feeders to local secondaries.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Cabinet Member for Education, Employment and Skills, Sarah Merry has said &#8220;on balance&#8221; the case for change had not been made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A report will go to cabinet on Thursday which recommends Option A, which is broadly similar to the admissions policy we&#8217;ve got currently,&#8221; Cllr Merry said.<\/p>\n<p>The final outcome will be decided on Thursday at County Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some parents in Cardiff say the council is ignoring them over a new strategy to decide secondary school places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744,750,1],"tags":[182,872,1218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20278"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20397,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278\/revisions\/20397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}