school rules gone mad

Quite a lot I think now

Yes, more and more are becoming academies, sadly.

Thanks bags...that's clarified things. I had outlaws in the family as well-fab phrase!

And they are completely independent, so they have moved out from the protection that the Education authority offers because it takes responsiblity for insurance matters. If they are a very new academy they are probably running round trying to sort everything out. Yet another reason why schools should stay under LEA control.

Two of my GSs are at a primary school that's part of a group academy, comprising two primary and one secondary school. I'm not sure how satisfactory it is as it's quite new and all seems to have been arranged without any local consultation. At least when grant maintained schools (remember them?) were introduced, we had parents' ballots.

In Scotland academies are senior schools operating under LA control. All our schools here in NE/Moray/Highlands tend to be called academies with only a few exceptions.

There are also some very powerful Academy Trusts now, controlling both secondary and primary schools. One at least has around 70 schools.

Our local academy was looking to take over a feeder school, so the schoold have formed themselves into an association to stop this, Am I right in thinking as an academy they can refuse any child without giving a reason?

I don't know, trisher, but academies do seem to have a lot of autonomy. I think we'll regret the winding down of LEAs.