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Seriously. So much drama here. Does PP have parents/in-laws she can send her kid to and see if she can get her kid into their neighborhood school? I've known families who've shipped their kids across the country for the opportunity to attend school. My in-laws actually boarded a former neighbor's kid who was in a similar situation, and they weren't anything but good neighbors. There are lots of ways to get things done, if you really want them done.

Probably not a good option for a very young child. My cousin's 7 year old lives with his paternal grandparents while the parents are finishing grad school (both are former military). They see him on the weekend (Friday afternoon through Monday morning), January break, and summers for the past 2 years. He has a lot of anger. Poor kid can't understand what a "great opportunity" he has.

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Anonymous wrote:We got in absolutely nowhere for kindergarten. Compared to previous years our numbers look good, because we're under 100 for most of them, but the numbers of applicants and places are much lower for kindergarten. I can expect very little movement.

Really depressed because we have no other option.

will you consider moving to burbs?

No. Not an option. Like I said we have no other option.

You have pther options, they just might not be a choice that you are willing to make. You could send you child to the IB school. Move. Homeschool. Private. Don't feel defeated.

Move, homeschool, private are NOT options. Not everyone on this board is wealthy. Our only real "option" is the IB school which is not really an "option" simply the default.

Moving is always an option.

Agree with PP, of course moving is an option. Moving is a time honored tradition for parents to get their children into school. Maybe you don't want to downsize, maybe you have some other issue with it being difficulty timing to move, but it is clearly an option. Move, rent your place out and rent in the new school district. There are always options. This has nothing to do with being wealthy, sorry.

Seriously. So much drama here. Does PP have parents/in-laws she can send her kid to and see if she can get her kid into their neighborhood school? I've known families who've shipped their kids across the country for the opportunity to attend school. My in-laws actually boarded a former neighbor's kid who was in a similar situation, and they weren't anything but good neighbors. There are lots of ways to get things done, if you really want them done.

I know a few people who sent their children mostly infants to grandma's while doing their residency. Kids turned out fine.

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We didn't get in any of the 12 schools for K. This is our third year of not getting in. We have WL numbers in the high 20s for Hearst and low 20s for Shepherd. Much higher numbers at other schools. Do we have any chance at either of those?

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Really depressed because we have no other option.

will you consider moving to burbs?

No. Not an option. Like I said we have no other option.

You have pther options, they just might not be a choice that you are willing to make. You could send you child to the IB school. Move. Homeschool. Private. Don't feel defeated.

Move, homeschool, private are NOT options. Not everyone on this board is wealthy. Our only real "option" is the IB school which is not really an "option" simply the default.

Moving is always an option.

Agree with PP, of course moving is an option. Moving is a time honored tradition for parents to get their children into school. Maybe you don't want to downsize, maybe you have some other issue with it being difficulty timing to move, but it is clearly an option. Move, rent your place out and rent in the new school district. There are always options. This has nothing to do with being wealthy, sorry.

Seriously. So much drama here. Does PP have parents/in-laws she can send her kid to and see if she can get her kid into their neighborhood school? I've known families who've shipped their kids across the country for the opportunity to attend school. My in-laws actually boarded a former neighbor's kid who was in a similar situation, and they weren't anything but good neighbors. There are lots of ways to get things done, if you really want them done.

I know a few people who sent their children mostly infants to grandma's while doing their residency. Kids turned out fine.

As a teacher, I see the opposite. I work with many families who send their children away or leave them behind, often for very valid financial reasons, and then struggle with reunification and a child who is grieving a primary caretaker, while the parent struggles to find their way with a child they don't know well, and a role they aren't used to.

I know that in an emergency my mother would take my child in a heartbeat, but it would have to be a true emergency, like I was going through chemo and couldn't parent, or our other child was a homeless shelter. Not because my local public school wasn't good enough, or I wasn't willing to downsize from a house in the city to an apartment in a different area.

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Anonymous wrote:Very disappointed. We will apply for Francis Stevens in round 2. Besides that we can't afford to go private, since it us PK3 our choices are going to be very limited.

1 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlist #238 No preference
2 School-Within-School Waitlist #310 No preference
3 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS Waitlist #396 No preference
4 Ross Elementary School Waitlist #268 No preference
5 Garrison Elementary School Waitlist #25 No preference

I don't know if your chances of getting into FS will be any better in round 2. I put it down in round 1 and got a waitlist number in the 60s. So if you apply in round 2 you will be behind that.

Francis Stevens is an in-bound school for us, does that mean that if we put it as option 1 for Round 2 we will be wait listed ahead of those who applied in Round 1 but were waitlisted because they are not inbound? At this point we are hoping for Garrison, but we are OOB and I have no idea how the wait list will move this year. Thanks for any clarifications, I am lost and confused -besides being frustrated and depressed.

No, you are behind everyone who applied in round 1. If this is for PK3, I think you basically have no chance--we are something like 120 at SWW@F-S (out of bounds) in round 1. Good luck.

Thanks for the clarification. Hoping something will happen with the Garrison wait list, can anyone chime in with their thoughts? Much appreciated..

Is there any reason you didn't put FS down during round 1? Did you exhaust all 12 spaces? I think Garrison is going to be tough with a waitlist of 25.

I was overly ambitious with my seelction and very stupid.

Where do you live? Maybe we can offer some legitimate round 2 options to help until next year.

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Anonymous wrote:We got in absolutely nowhere for kindergarten. Compared to previous years our numbers look good, because we're under 100 for most of them, but the numbers of applicants and places are much lower for kindergarten. I can expect very little movement.

Really depressed because we have no other option.

will you consider moving to burbs?

No. Not an option. Like I said we have no other option.

You have pther options, they just might not be a choice that you are willing to make. You could send you child to the IB school. Move. Homeschool. Private. Don't feel defeated.

Move, homeschool, private are NOT options. Not everyone on this board is wealthy. Our only real "option" is the IB school which is not really an "option" simply the default.

Moving is always an option.

Agree with PP, of course moving is an option. Moving is a time honored tradition for parents to get their children into school. Maybe you don't want to downsize, maybe you have some other issue with it being difficulty timing to move, but it is clearly an option. Move, rent your place out and rent in the new school district. There are always options. This has nothing to do with being wealthy, sorry.

Seriously. So much drama here. Does PP have parents/in-laws she can send her kid to and see if she can get her kid into their neighborhood school? I've known families who've shipped their kids across the country for the opportunity to attend school. My in-laws actually boarded a former neighbor's kid who was in a similar situation, and they weren't anything but good neighbors. There are lots of ways to get things done, if you really want them done.

I know a few people who sent their children mostly infants to grandma's while doing their residency. Kids turned out fine.

As a teacher, I see the opposite. I work with many families who send their children away or leave them behind, often for very valid financial reasons, and then struggle with reunification and a child who is grieving a primary caretaker, while the parent struggles to find their way with a child they don't know well, and a role they aren't used to.

I know that in an emergency my mother would take my child in a heartbeat, but it would have to be a true emergency, like I was going through chemo and couldn't parent, or our other child was a homeless shelter. Not because my local public school wasn't good enough, or I wasn't willing to downsize from a house in the city to an apartment in a different area.

These kids are all in their teens, high school and college age now, and they turned out fine. This was in the bad old days when medical residents could be on call for 72 hrs straight and slept at the hospital. No way could these parents care for their kids/babies and it has nothing to schooling (other than the parents').

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Really depressed because we have no other option.

will you consider moving to burbs?

No. Not an option. Like I said we have no other option.

You have pther options, they just might not be a choice that you are willing to make. You could send you child to the IB school. Move. Homeschool. Private. Don't feel defeated.

Move, homeschool, private are NOT options. Not everyone on this board is wealthy. Our only real "option" is the IB school which is not really an "option" simply the default.

Moving is always an option.

Agree with PP, of course moving is an option. Moving is a time honored tradition for parents to get their children into school. Maybe you don't want to downsize, maybe you have some other issue with it being difficulty timing to move, but it is clearly an option. Move, rent your place out and rent in the new school district. There are always options. This has nothing to do with being wealthy, sorry.

Seriously. So much drama here. Does PP have parents/in-laws she can send her kid to and see if she can get her kid into their neighborhood school? I've known families who've shipped their kids across the country for the opportunity to attend school. My in-laws actually boarded a former neighbor's kid who was in a similar situation, and they weren't anything but good neighbors. There are lots of ways to get things done, if you really want them done.

I know a few people who sent their children mostly infants to grandma's while doing their residency. Kids turned out fine.

As a teacher, I see the opposite. I work with many families who send their children away or leave them behind, often for very valid financial reasons, and then struggle with reunification and a child who is grieving a primary caretaker, while the parent struggles to find their way with a child they don't know well, and a role they aren't used to.

I know that in an emergency my mother would take my child in a heartbeat, but it would have to be a true emergency, like I was going through chemo and couldn't parent, or our other child was a homeless shelter. Not because my local public school wasn't good enough, or I wasn't willing to downsize from a house in the city to an apartment in a different area.

These kids are all in their teens, high school and college age now, and they turned out fine. This was in the bad old days when medical residents could be on call for 72 hrs straight and slept at the hospital. No way could these parents care for their kids/babies and it has nothing to schooling (other than the parents').

My goal for my kids isn't just that they "turn out fine". Kids can go through many traumatic things and come out the other side "fine" -- death of a parent, chemo therapy, war, but I don't want those things for my child. Unless you suspect abuse in the preschool, putting a child through two major losses of caregiver (when moving to grandma's and when moving home) to avoid a less than ideal preschool situation is a vast overreaction.

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Anonymous wrote:We didn't get in any of the 12 schools for K. This is our third year of not getting in. We have WL numbers in the high 20s for Hearst and low 20s for Shepherd. Much higher numbers at other schools. Do we have any chance at either of those?

Go to your inbound schools. You are guaranteed a spot. If your IB is not an option, I would say the obvious, move.

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Anonymous wrote:We got in absolutely nowhere for kindergarten. Compared to previous years our numbers look good, because we're under 100 for most of them, but the numbers of applicants and places are much lower for kindergarten. I can expect very little movement.

Really depressed because we have no other option.

will you consider moving to burbs?

No. Not an option. Like I said we have no other option.

You have pther options, they just might not be a choice that you are willing to make. You could send you child to the IB school. Move. Homeschool. Private. Don't feel defeated.

Move, homeschool, private are NOT options. Not everyone on this board is wealthy. Our only real "option" is the IB school which is not really an "option" simply the default.

Moving is always an option.

Agree with PP, of course moving is an option. Moving is a time honored tradition for parents to get their children into school. Maybe you don't want to downsize, maybe you have some other issue with it being difficulty timing to move, but it is clearly an option. Move, rent your place out and rent in the new school district. There are always options. This has nothing to do with being wealthy, sorry.

Seriously. So much drama here. Does PP have parents/in-laws she can send her kid to and see if she can get her kid into their neighborhood school? I've known families who've shipped their kids across the country for the opportunity to attend school. My in-laws actually boarded a former neighbor's kid who was in a similar situation, and they weren't anything but good neighbors. There are lots of ways to get things done, if you really want them done.

I know a few people who sent their children mostly infants to grandma's while doing their residency. Kids turned out fine.

As a teacher, I see the opposite. I work with many families who send their children away or leave them behind, often for very valid financial reasons, and then struggle with reunification and a child who is grieving a primary caretaker, while the parent struggles to find their way with a child they don't know well, and a role they aren't used to.

I know that in an emergency my mother would take my child in a heartbeat, but it would have to be a true emergency, like I was going through chemo and couldn't parent, or our other child was a homeless shelter. Not because my local public school wasn't good enough, or I wasn't willing to downsize from a house in the city to an apartment in a different area.

These kids are all in their teens, high school and college age now, and they turned out fine. This was in the bad old days when medical residents could be on call for 72 hrs straight and slept at the hospital. No way could these parents care for their kids/babies and it has nothing to schooling (other than the parents').

My goal for my kids isn't just that they "turn out fine". Kids can go through many traumatic things and come out the other side "fine" -- death of a parent, chemo therapy, war, but I don't want those things for my child. Unless you suspect abuse in the preschool, putting a child through two major losses of caregiver (when moving to grandma's and when moving home) to avoid a less than ideal preschool situation is a vast overreaction.

The kids/babies would see their parents every three days. It worked for them. Residencies aren't forever. Just a few yrs... or are you suggesting that young doctors with children should become SAHPs.

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Anonymous wrote:Very disappointed. We will apply for Francis Stevens in round 2. Besides that we can't afford to go private, since it us PK3 our choices are going to be very limited.

1 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Waitlist #238 No preference
2 School-Within-School Waitlist #310 No preference
3 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS Waitlist #396 No preference
4 Ross Elementary School Waitlist #268 No preference
5 Garrison Elementary School Waitlist #25 No preference

I don't know if your chances of getting into FS will be any better in round 2. I put it down in round 1 and got a waitlist number in the 60s. So if you apply in round 2 you will be behind that.

Francis Stevens is an in-bound school for us, does that mean that if we put it as option 1 for Round 2 we will be wait listed ahead of those who applied in Round 1 but were waitlisted because they are not inbound? At this point we are hoping for Garrison, but we are OOB and I have no idea how the wait list will move this year. Thanks for any clarifications, I am lost and confused -besides being frustrated and depressed.

No, you are behind everyone who applied in round 1. If this is for PK3, I think you basically have no chance--we are something like 120 at SWW@F-S (out of bounds) in round 1. Good luck.

Thanks for the clarification. Hoping something will happen with the Garrison wait list, can anyone chime in with their thoughts? Much appreciated..

Is there any reason you didn't put FS down during round 1? Did you exhaust all 12 spaces? I think Garrison is going to be tough with a waitlist of 25.

I was overly ambitious with my seelction and very stupid.

Where do you live? Maybe we can offer some legitimate round 2 options to help until next year.

I live in Shaw. I will try Seaton for round 2 and any other neighborhood schools. Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

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HD Cooke in Adams Morgan is a possibility. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:We got in absolutely nowhere for kindergarten. Compared to previous years our numbers look good, because we're under 100 for most of them, but the numbers of applicants and places are much lower for kindergarten. I can expect very little movement.

Really depressed because we have no other option.

will you consider moving to burbs?

No. Not an option. Like I said we have no other option.

You have pther options, they just might not be a choice that you are willing to make. You could send you child to the IB school. Move. Homeschool. Private. Don't feel defeated.

Move, homeschool, private are NOT options. Not everyone on this board is wealthy. Our only real "option" is the IB school which is not really an "option" simply the default.

Moving is always an option.

No it is not. Moving costs money. Not everyone has money. Not everyone has somewhere else to move to or the resources to move.

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For those who didn't get in "anywhere" for PK3, are you going to consider OOB or other charters you didn't in round 1? Curious how you'll choose between Pk3 at a less desirable choice vs no PK3.

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Anonymous wrote:For those who didn't get in "anywhere" for PK3, are you going to consider OOB or other charters you didn't in round 1? Curious how you'll choose between Pk3 at a less desirable choice vs no PK3.

Considering most of the world has no free PK3, I would hope people have thought of a backup option over DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:For those who didn't get in "anywhere" for PK3, are you going to consider OOB or other charters you didn't in round 1? Curious how you'll choose between Pk3 at a less desirable choice vs no PK3.

We got into 0 of the 12, with our lowest waitlist # still being in the 90s! For us, we are going to do a private Pk3 that should work out pretty well. I don't think we'll do round 2. Honestly, identifying even 12 DCPS schools that would work for us was a challenge, so I just don't think other schools would work.