Mundo Verde Waitlist moving

[Anonymous]

The one pro of this for all schools and those waiting? The domino effect of school moves. If one of the schools with the 3 longest waitlists adds seats, there will be waitlist moves down the board. My #40ish may not get me into MV, but my #20ish gives me a chance of getting into Lee.

[Anonymous]

instead of 88 pk3/4 students there will now be 132. classes are 2/3 pk4 and 1/3 pk3. 6 instead of 4 classes. this means big admission year for pk this year but smaller admissions the year after for Pk4 and K due to expansion of class size this year.

That sounds huge. Didn't they add a kindergarten class this year, too? How many students are they expecting at the school next year in total?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

What number were you for K? Just trying to see where the list is up to.

#11

Were you 11 on the MySchoolDC list at the time you got the call? My K number has only moved down three spots, and I'm confused about how the lists work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

What number were you for K? Just trying to see where the list is up to.

#11

Were you 11 on the MySchoolDC list at the time you got the call? My K number has only moved down three spots, and I'm confused about how the lists work.

Yes, I was #11 since the lottery results were posted. Last week I was bumped to #12 then #10 and back to #11. I didn't look to see if it went lower, but was emailed on Sunday indicating I got a spot off the wait list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And I already thought MV was growing too fast too soon. This is a recipe for disaster IMO. Concerns me that they couldn't budget for new construction without adding last minute classes. Does not look good on the admins part.

Lots of assumptions in this post.... growing too fast for whom? We go to the school, we are new this year and could not have been happier with this growth year. All the naysayers about quality of program in last years expansion year did not prevent this from being a fantastic year for mine or several other new kids. Also the need for new classes was based on unexpected and unprecedented citywide shortfall from Bowsers school budget and lack of typical increase per student as has happened every year before, not on bad budgeting skills. I suppose it likely to assume to worst without all the information but people people sure do love to pop mess without much knowledge of the truth....

Read the posts from your fellow MV parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I already thought MV was growing too fast too soon. This is a recipe for disaster IMO. Concerns me that they couldn't budget for new construction without adding last minute classes. Does not look good on the admins part.

Lots of assumptions in this post.... growing too fast for whom? We go to the school, we are new this year and could not have been happier with this growth year. All the naysayers about quality of program in last years expansion year did not prevent this from being a fantastic year for mine or several other new kids. Also the need for new classes was based on unexpected and unprecedented citywide shortfall from Bowsers school budget and lack of typical increase per student as has happened every year before, not on bad budgeting skills. I suppose it likely to assume to worst without all the information but people people sure do love to pop mess without much knowledge of the truth....

Read the posts from your fellow MV parents.

This MV parent thinks its a good move or at least one that makes sense. You're adding two grades in the next two years any way so add them early and you get the money to keep up your (not inexpensive) programs and renovations and in the future you'll get better Spanish speaking students as those added classes move up through the ranks. Three of the issues that have been raised about MV - lack of play space, bullying issues in higher grades and complaints about Spanish proficiency (the last being more of a DCUM issue) got addressed here. Back to my kool-aid, I mean coffee...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I already thought MV was growing too fast too soon. This is a recipe for disaster IMO. Concerns me that they couldn't budget for new construction without adding last minute classes. Does not look good on the admins part.

Lots of assumptions in this post.... growing too fast for whom? We go to the school, we are new this year and could not have been happier with this growth year. All the naysayers about quality of program in last years expansion year did not prevent this from being a fantastic year for mine or several other new kids. Also the need for new classes was based on unexpected and unprecedented citywide shortfall from Bowsers school budget and lack of typical increase per student as has happened every year before, not on bad budgeting skills. I suppose it likely to assume to worst without all the information but people people sure do love to pop mess without much knowledge of the truth....

Read the posts from your fellow MV parents.

This MV parent thinks its a good move or at least one that makes sense. You're adding two grades in the next two years any way so add them early and you get the money to keep up your (not inexpensive) programs and renovations and in the future you'll get better Spanish speaking students as those added classes move up through the ranks. Three of the issues that have been raised about MV - lack of play space, bullying issues in higher grades and complaints about Spanish proficiency (the last being more of a DCUM issue) got addressed here. Back to my kool-aid, I mean coffee...

Seriously, as another MV parent, I couldn't be more thrilled with all of the announcements today. It shows real ingenuity that they were able to solve so many problems at once with such creative solutions. Moreover, this is just the size of the school, take it or leave it. It makes no financial sense to leave spaces empty, and this is the way that they have decided to deal with it. Almost every charter that moves has some choppy growth, and the building of a new building made it inevitable that we would this year as well. I'm glad they were able to avoid adding classes in later years or creating a larger continuing cohort.

I actually think this larger class might be the strongest one so far as we won't have such a large influx of new Spanish learners in the later years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! So it's turning out to be a huge entry year for MV! Great news for waitlisted families. Here's hoping the jump in enrollment will be smooth.

Huge entry year for MV! Adding two prek classrooms so this is the last expansion year...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I already thought MV was growing too fast too soon. This is a recipe for disaster IMO. Concerns me that they couldn't budget for new construction without adding last minute classes. Does not look good on the admins part.

Lots of assumptions in this post.... growing too fast for whom? We go to the school, we are new this year and could not have been happier with this growth year. All the naysayers about quality of program in last years expansion year did not prevent this from being a fantastic year for mine or several other new kids. Also the need for new classes was based on unexpected and unprecedented citywide shortfall from Bowsers school budget and lack of typical increase per student as has happened every year before, not on bad budgeting skills. I suppose it likely to assume to worst without all the information but people people sure do love to pop mess without much knowledge of the truth....

Read the posts from your fellow MV parents.

This MV parent thinks its a good move or at least one that makes sense. You're adding two grades in the next two years any way so add them early and you get the money to keep up your (not inexpensive) programs and renovations and in the future you'll get better Spanish speaking students as those added classes move up through the ranks. Three of the issues that have been raised about MV - lack of play space, bullying issues in higher grades and complaints about Spanish proficiency (the last being more of a DCUM issue) got addressed here. Back to my kool-aid, I mean coffee...

Seriously, as another MV parent, I couldn't be more thrilled with all of the announcements today. It shows real ingenuity that they were able to solve so many problems at once with such creative solutions. Moreover, this is just the size of the school, take it or leave it. It makes no financial sense to leave spaces empty, and this is the way that they have decided to deal with it. Almost every charter that moves has some choppy growth, and the building of a new building made it inevitable that we would this year as well. I'm glad they were able to avoid adding classes in later years or creating a larger continuing cohort.

I actually think this larger class might be the strongest one so far as we won't have such a large influx of new Spanish learners in the later years.

you seem to be the only one...

[Anonymous]

No, I think it is a common feeling for those actually there.

[Anonymous]

We declined our K spot at MV today, so another spot is available. Good luck to those of you waiting.