LAMB Lottery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that there will be a big lawsuit, that, honestly, seems justified, and that could financially cripple the school or even cause it to shut. But I don't really know how those kind of lawsuits work or are paid out, does that seem like a real concern?

LAMB should have a D&O insurance policy that would generally pay some (most?) of any damages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will be people accept a spot and also accept a common lottery spot? Can they hold both?

You can't be enrolled in two schools at the same time. If you accept a space at LAMB it will be entered in the city-wide student database. There may be a slight lag because they don't use MSDC, but the system would detect if you tried to enroll in a common lottery school in addition to LAMB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will be people accept a spot and also accept a common lottery spot? Can they hold both?

You can't be enrolled in two schools at the same time. If you accept a space at LAMB it will be entered in the city-wide student database. There may be a slight lag because they don't use MSDC, but the system would detect if you tried to enroll in a common lottery school in addition to LAMB

Not quite sure this is true. Prior to the common lottery people could hold spots at multiple schools. Not sure why it would be different now since lamb doesn't participate in the common lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will be people accept a spot and also accept a common lottery spot? Can they hold both?

You can't be enrolled in two schools at the same time. If you accept a space at LAMB it will be entered in the city-wide student database. There may be a slight lag because they don't use MSDC, but the system would detect if you tried to enroll in a common lottery school in addition to LAMB

Not quite sure this is true. Prior to the common lottery people could hold spots at multiple schools. Not sure why it would be different now since lamb doesn't participate in the common lottery.

We went through this. The enrollment system is the fail safe - it is separate than the common lottery system. Otherwise you could enroll a first grader in both a common lottery charter school and also you IB DCPS. That's not possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will be people accept a spot and also accept a common lottery spot? Can they hold both?

You can't be enrolled in two schools at the same time. If you accept a space at LAMB it will be entered in the city-wide student database. There may be a slight lag because they don't use MSDC, but the system would detect if you tried to enroll in a common lottery school in addition to LAMB

Not quite sure this is true. Prior to the common lottery people could hold spots at multiple schools. Not sure why it would be different now since lamb doesn't participate in the common lottery.

We went through this. The enrollment system is the fail safe - it is separate than the common lottery system. Otherwise you could enroll a first grader in both a common lottery charter school and also you IB DCPS. That's not possible

Right, that scenario makes sense because both schools are myschooldc schools. LAMB is not.

[Anonymous]

Every student has a unique ID that follows them from PK3 to 12th. It is used by MSDC but not generated by MSDC, it comes from the OSSE student database.

Every charter and DCPS uses that number and that database.

[Anonymous]

PP, I think the best thing to do is call MSDC and ask.

[Anonymous]

Two years ago I enrolled my kid at both Lamb and a school in the common lottery. There was no way to stop this practice then. In our case DC had a sibling who also got into LAMB but was on the WL at the common lottery school and we were waiting to see if sibling got off the WL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that there will be a big lawsuit, that, honestly, seems justified, and that could financially cripple the school or even cause it to shut. But I don't really know how those kind of lawsuits work or are paid out, does that seem like a real concern?

They have insurance and should be fine. But honestly, we have some healing to do as a community. If you're on the fence, consider declining and opening up a spot for a family who is thrilled to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1-27 are in for PK3
1-5 are in for PK4
1 is in for K

They usually make sure siblings get in together.

Why don't they let in after K again? And how do that they get away with that - this is a public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1-27 are in for PK3
1-5 are in for PK4
1 is in for K

They usually make sure siblings get in together.

Why don't they let in after K again? And how do that they get away with that - this is a public school.

This is basic stuff. Do a DCUM search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1-27 are in for PK3
1-5 are in for PK4
1 is in for K

They usually make sure siblings get in together.

Why don't they let in after K again? And how do that they get away with that - this is a public school.

This is basic stuff. Do a DCUM search.

Additionally I'm so tired of people going to DCUM and trying to get their second grader with no language background in an immersion school. Be realistic. Don't wreck your poor child's self esteem so you can tell people they speak mandarin. It's sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1-27 are in for PK3
1-5 are in for PK4
1 is in for K

They usually make sure siblings get in together.

Why don't they let in after K again? And how do that they get away with that - this is a public school.

This is basic stuff. Do a DCUM search.

Additionally I'm so tired of people going to DCUM and trying to get their second grader with no language background in an immersion school. Be realistic. Don't wreck your poor child's self esteem so you can tell people they speak mandarin. It's sad.

You do know not all people are white moms on DCUM? You do know it's possible that a mom of a student that speaks better Spanish than your snowflake can also be on DCUM right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1-27 are in for PK3
1-5 are in for PK4
1 is in for K

They usually make sure siblings get in together.

Why don't they let in after K again? And how do that they get away with that - this is a public school.

This is basic stuff. Do a DCUM search.

Additionally I'm so tired of people going to DCUM and trying to get their second grader with no language background in an immersion school. Be realistic. Don't wreck your poor child's self esteem so you can tell people they speak mandarin. It's sad.

You do know not all people are white moms on DCUM? You do know it's possible that a mom of a student that speaks better Spanish than your snowflake can also be on DCUM right?

(1) not a white parent
(2) than do a basic DCUM search and go educate yourself. This has been covered extensively.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1-27 are in for PK3
1-5 are in for PK4
1 is in for K

They usually make sure siblings get in together.

Why don't they let in after K again? And how do that they get away with that - this is a public school.

This is basic stuff. Do a DCUM search.

Additionally I'm so tired of people going to DCUM and trying to get their second grader with no language background in an immersion school. Be realistic. Don't wreck your poor child's self esteem so you can tell people they speak mandarin. It's sad.

You do know not all people are white moms on DCUM? You do know it's possible that a mom of a student that speaks better Spanish than your snowflake can also be on DCUM right?

(1) not a white parent
(2) than do a basic DCUM search and go educate yourself. This has been covered extensively.

Without a decent explanation