Parents unhappy with the school places their children have been offered have joined together and are refusing to accept them. The group of parents in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester are demanding that the local authority finds an alternative solution for their kids after the closure of a high school created a shortage of places.
The parents have applied for a number of different schools for their Year 7 children, including Sale High, Altrincham College and Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, which all fall under Trafford Council. They say there has never been an issue securing places at these schools in years gone by because, although they fall under a different council, they are closer to those than many Manchester schools.
One of the parents is Angela Davies whose daughter Maisie attended Lime Tree Primary in Sale. She told the Manchester Evening News there "was never any indication there would be an issue going from a Trafford primary to a high school".
