New Extended Day registration process (APS) - no longer first come first served

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got notified I got a spot in extended day - anyone else?

We received a notification yesterday for our neighborhood school. However, please riddle me this. We were offered and accepted a spot at a lottery school last Friday 5/24. We had originally put in for ED for our neighborhood school prior to the 5/15 deadline, as we were still on lottery waitlist. Now that we have cleared waitlist, accepted spot at lottery, how will our ED registration transfer? Also, the lottery we accepted at is one that is overenrolled for ED, so, my understanding is that there was a lottery for ED done on 5/24, and families will be notified on 6/1.

Any thoughts or insights in to trying to preserve our ED enrollment somehow and not be inadvertently pushed out of the running because of the delay in lottery school offers and acceptances? Why can't APS just line up these timelines so that they are more logical and orderly?!?!?! TIA.

Call the extended day office and talk to them. I've found them to be very helpful. They realize these issues are out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Starting in 2nd grade, students identified as "walkers" are allowed to be released at end of day without parents to pick them up. If we don't get an extended day spot, my 2nd-grader will have to wait on the playground for me until we can pick him up, or hopefully he can re-enter the school to wait in the library. I think parents will have to get creative to get by.

NP, but I cannot find this in APS website. Can anyone direct me there? I would love to know if I can do this starting 2nd grade.

Not on the APS, or school site, or policy so I called the school to ask (actually I called 2 schools and got similar responses). 2nd graders who walk can be released without a parent to walk home by themselves but they cannot loiter on school property while extended day is in session. For ex, the walker can stop at the library to pick up a book or go to the playground for a short while but must leave once extended day students are released on school property, for liability reasons. (And extended day staff do not allow random parents with kids on school playground from 4-6 PM while extended day in session).

Parents must write a letter to child's teacher (and school office) granting permission to release student without parent to pick up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got notified I got a spot in extended day - anyone else?

We received a notification yesterday for our neighborhood school. However, please riddle me this. We were offered and accepted a spot at a lottery school last Friday 5/24. We had originally put in for ED for our neighborhood school prior to the 5/15 deadline, as we were still on lottery waitlist. Now that we have cleared waitlist, accepted spot at lottery, how will our ED registration transfer? Also, the lottery we accepted at is one that is overenrolled for ED, so, my understanding is that there was a lottery for ED done on 5/24, and families will be notified on 6/1.

Any thoughts or insights in to trying to preserve our ED enrollment somehow and not be inadvertently pushed out of the running because of the delay in lottery school offers and acceptances? Why can't APS just line up these timelines so that they are more logical and orderly?!?!?! TIA.

Call the extended day office and talk to them. I've found them to be very helpful. They realize these issues are out there.

I’ll second that they are really helpful when you talk to them. APS technology (Arlington County in general actually) leaves much to be desired but the people I talk to are knowledgeable and helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got notified I got a spot in extended day - anyone else?

We received a notification yesterday for our neighborhood school. However, please riddle me this. We were offered and accepted a spot at a lottery school last Friday 5/24. We had originally put in for ED for our neighborhood school prior to the 5/15 deadline, as we were still on lottery waitlist. Now that we have cleared waitlist, accepted spot at lottery, how will our ED registration transfer? Also, the lottery we accepted at is one that is overenrolled for ED, so, my understanding is that there was a lottery for ED done on 5/24, and families will be notified on 6/1.

Any thoughts or insights in to trying to preserve our ED enrollment somehow and not be inadvertently pushed out of the running because of the delay in lottery school offers and acceptances? Why can't APS just line up these timelines so that they are more logical and orderly?!?!?! TIA.

Call the extended day office and talk to them. I've found them to be very helpful. They realize these issues are out there.

I’ll second that they are really helpful when you talk to them. APS technology (Arlington County in general actually) leaves much to be desired but the people I talk to are knowledgeable and helpful.

PP here--Thanks. I called yesterday to check in. I also emailed them over the weekend, forwarding on the original confirmation from our neighborhood school, but, have yet to hear back. And yesterday when I called, they seemed a bit puzzled by what I was describing, and just said the registrar would address it when she got to that email. Didn't give me the greatest confidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Not on the APS, or school site, or policy so I called the school to ask (actually I called 2 schools and got similar responses). 2nd graders who walk can be released without a parent to walk home by themselves but they cannot loiter on school property while extended day is in session. For ex, the walker can stop at the library to pick up a book or go to the playground for a short while but must leave once extended day students are released on school property, for liability reasons. (And extended day staff do not allow random parents with kids on school playground from 4-6 PM while extended day in session).

Parents must write a letter to child's teacher (and school office) granting permission to release student without parent to pick up.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Starting in 2nd grade, students identified as "walkers" are allowed to be released at end of day without parents to pick them up. If we don't get an extended day spot, my 2nd-grader will have to wait on the playground for me until we can pick him up, or hopefully he can re-enter the school to wait in the library. I think parents will have to get creative to get by.

NP, but I cannot find this in APS website. Can anyone direct me there? I would love to know if I can do this starting 2nd grade.

Not on the APS, or school site, or policy so I called the school to ask (actually I called 2 schools and got similar responses). 2nd graders who walk can be released without a parent to walk home by themselves but they cannot loiter on school property while extended day is in session. For ex, the walker can stop at the library to pick up a book or go to the playground for a short while but must leave once extended day students are released on school property, for liability reasons. (And extended day staff do not allow random parents with kids on school playground from 4-6 PM while extended day in session).

Parents must write a letter to child's teacher (and school office) granting permission to release student without parent to pick up.

They also have to sign a liability waiver, and if anything happens to the kid after they’re released from school, DFS will likely get involved since it’s against county guidance for a child that age to be left unattended.