ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors consider the children's point of view, drawing on the children's responses to the questionnaires that they filled in at school. They aim to find from the pupil questionnaire study confirm their findings from the parents' study, namely that there are some key differences in the reasons for the choice of school. The authors look at what the pupils considered to be the key issues in relation to their thinking about and 'choosing' a school. The majority of pupils had talked to their parents 'a great deal', or 'quite a lot', about which secondary school to choose. The main links with secondary schools were that other pupils from their primary school wanted to go there and that friends wanted to go there. It is interesting to note that more pupils whose parents had not been interviewed felt that it was important that friends should be going to their preferred secondary school.
