PK3/4 Vent-who didn't get in to their IB school..

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I know several families who didn't get into Bruce Monroe IB while OOB kids did get in because of the language requirement at PK. 60% seats are set aside for spanish dominant and that was set arbitrarily by the principal.

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I'm surprised more Capitol Hill parents complaining about being shut out aren't putting Payne on their PK3 and PK4 lists. It's our in-bounds school and we have had a fantastic experience for PK3. I think the wait list is getting longer but your chances are definitely better than some of the other schools on the Hill.

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I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised more Capitol Hill parents complaining about being shut out aren't putting Payne on their PK3 and PK4 lists. It's our in-bounds school and we have had a fantastic experience for PK3. I think the wait list is getting longer but your chances are definitely better than some of the other schools on the Hill.

If your master number leaves you on the outside looking in of your IB school, then it is basically too low to get in any Hill ES as an OOB student. The only exception was the Brent year when all non-siblings got shut out. Many ended up at other near by schools because they had high numbers, just no siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Which school?

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.

Or could be Brent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Title I schools with wait listed IB families
From this thread, Bancroft, West
From chatting with neighbors, Bruce Monroe.

Whittier too, and I suspect Takoma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised more Capitol Hill parents complaining about being shut out aren't putting Payne on their PK3 and PK4 lists. It's our in-bounds school and we have had a fantastic experience for PK3. I think the wait list is getting longer but your chances are definitely better than some of the other schools on the Hill.

My understanding was that Payne PK more or less filled up with IB kids this year, with maybe a couple of OOB kids. Was that not the case?

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Anonymous wrote:Title I schools with wait listed IB families
From this thread, Bancroft, West
From chatting with neighbors, Bruce Monroe.

Whittier too, and I suspect Takoma.

Barnard waitlisted IB kids last year. Not sure about this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.

Or could be Brent.

That e-mail was for Janney. I saw that on the list serv too.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in bound for barnard and I was quite worried we would get shut out of the better ranked schools and also shut out of Barnard. We ranked it 8 because of that, hoping it would get us in but still allowed us to rank some others higher. We got in. Not sure if there is a wait list or not; our wait list numbers are all well below 60, so I guess we had a decent draw compared to my friends all in the 200's. I would also support at-risk preference evne though it could result in me being shut out.

After all these years I'm still surprised that there are so many people that don't understand how the lottery works. You wouldn't have gotten shut out if you ranked Barnard 12th, only possibility is you would have gotten INTO a better ranked school. You would have gotten into Barnard no matter what with your master number.

Unless they only wanted 7 other schools?

Not the case with PP, read the statement, "I was quite worried we would get shut out of the better ranked schools and also shut out of Barnard. We ranked it 8 because of that, hoping it would get us in but still allowed us to rank some others higher."

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.

Or could be Brent.

That e-mail was for Janney. I saw that on the list serv too.

NP here- how is it shortsighted? Not a Janney parent, but they need to prioritize the K-5 kids first, right? What's the argument for more PK?

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.

Or could be Brent.

That e-mail was for Janney. I saw that on the list serv too.

NP here- how is it shortsighted? Not a Janney parent, but they need to prioritize the K-5 kids first, right? What's the argument for more PK?

Yes it's shortsighted to want a PK class added so you don't have to pay for another year of preschool at the expense of reasonably sized classes for fifth graders.

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Anonymous wrote:I got an email on our neighborhood listserv where one parent is trying to organize other IB families who are waitlisted for PK...to do what, I'm not sure. They want to go to the school to see if the class that had been eliminated (for space reasons) to be added back-- "for fairness." How short sighted- so fifth graders should have extra large classes so that affluent families don't have to pay for PK for another year?

Janney? Yes, that is short sighted.

Or could be Brent.

That e-mail was for Janney. I saw that on the list serv too.

NP here- how is it shortsighted? Not a Janney parent, but they need to prioritize the K-5 kids first, right? What's the argument for more PK?

There isn't an argument for more PK, unless you are one of the parents who didn't get it.

There is one fewer PK class this year than last. It's to be expected that these families feel particularly aggrieved. I would imagine the principal has prepared for just such a reaction for some time now.