Unified Lottery is official

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:what happens if you don't like the school you were given, i.e. your # 6 choice?

You're still on the list at 1-5. For K and up you can go to your in-bounds school. Hopefully there will be a second-chance lottery or some easy way to find leftover seats.

From the article, it did not seem like this was the case. It sounds like you get ONE answer and don't stay on multiple waitlists, which is great!

That's actually awful because the schools need waitlists to fill spots and the waitlists should include people who placed the schools high on their lists. It makes sense that if you get in at school #5 you are taken off the waitlists for schools you gave a lower preference but not a higher. What if a kid gets in in February then moves before August? How does the school replace the child without a waitlist to pull from?

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why a charter has the option of declining to participate. Why shouldn't the PCSB mandate this as a condition to receiving public funds. It's not like an individual DCPS can opt out.

[Anonymous]

I am glad I got in before this change. I wish everyone luck.

[Anonymous]

I find it interesting that some of the schools that people have questions regarding how their lotteries work are not on the list. There is always questions on LAMB - and Creative Minds this year had the situation where not only did they not have a public event, they played with the results with the "New Founder"

[Anonymous]

I am glad they have not conformed to the unified lottery.

[Anonymous]

Glad MV is on their

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what happens if you don't like the school you were given, i.e. your # 6 choice?

You're still on the list at 1-5. For K and up you can go to your in-bounds school. Hopefully there will be a second-chance lottery or some easy way to find leftover seats.

From the article, it did not seem like this was the case. It sounds like you get ONE answer and don't stay on multiple waitlists, which is great!

That's actually awful because the schools need waitlists to fill spots and the waitlists should include people who placed the schools high on their lists. It makes sense that if you get in at school #5 you are taken off the waitlists for schools you gave a lower preference but not a higher. What if a kid gets in in February then moves before August? How does the school replace the child without a waitlist to pull from?

I think the wording in the article is confusing, but no where does it say that you are locked out of your higher choices. It would make no sense for schools not to maintain any kind of waitlist, since as you mention, people may move, or go private, or whatever. I think the point of the unified lottery is to streamline the process for parents, and also to make sure that people are not holding spots at multiple schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that some of the schools that people have questions regarding how their lotteries work are not on the list. There is always questions on LAMB - and Creative Minds this year had the situation where not only did they not have a public event, they played with the results with the "New Founder"

You mean, someone on DCUM made up a rumor which was unconfirmed.

[Anonymous]

Emma Brown doesn't seem to understand her beat. DCPS doesn't have magnet or so-called out of boundary schools.

What other news sources are people using these days other than WaPo?

[Anonymous]

So newbie here. Does this mean we couldn't get into one dcps and one charter and then decide which would best fit our kid, commute etc?

Or, is just the process unifies but not the results - so you would have one line of choices for traditional dcps and one line for charter?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Ok, sooooo....

If I am applying for PK4 and have a good IB option want am interested in going to a Charter, do I put that charter #1 and the IB school 2?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emma Brown doesn't seem to understand her beat. DCPS doesn't have magnet or so-called out of boundary schools.

What other news sources are people using these days other than WaPo?

Because Emma doesn't actually do research, she goes on the Internet and does the same google search you or I would. As soon as I see Emma's byline, I know the "facts" are worthless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So newbie here. Does this mean we couldn't get into one dcps and one charter and then decide which would best fit our kid, commute etc?

Or, is just the process unifies but not the results - so you would have one line of choices for traditional dcps and one line for charter?

Thanks.

You will get into one school-either a charter or DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No YY, interesting. Actually as a YY parent I hope they choose not to participate and keep the time stamp wait list. One if YY string points is the involved parents and the amazing job the PA does raising funds for the school. You definitely get some involved, dedicated parents if the top of your wait list is comprised of parents who took the extra effort to stand in line extra early. And before you say how unfair it is, with enough notice and planning you can work it out. It is ONE day out of the year.

If that's true, why so little participation from parents in the younger classes, especially the big class of 100?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, sooooo....

If I am applying for PK4 and have a good IB option want am interested in going to a Charter, do I put that charter #1 and the IB school 2?

You rank your most desired choice first (whether it is charter or DCPS), then your next desired choice, etc.