2nd round of lottery: Moved back due to IB

[Anonymous]

Of course it hasn't been thought through. The proposal talks about 10%, but 10% of what? Total school capacity? 10% more than enrollment of the previous school year? Looking at the current OOB percentage and then adding OOB kids to get you to "at least" 10%? And if "count day" occurs in October and it's determined that a school is only 9% OOB after the enrollment audit, will that school accept OOB students from its waitlist in Oct/Nov in order to get over that 10% threshold? The whole concept is wacky ahd half-baked. And I'm the PP who said I may begrudgingly need to start supporting the set-aside concept since I'm getting more and more screwed as an OOB family who is very much invested in our child's OOB school but feels dissed by being bumped back further on the waitlist late in the game. Yeah, I'm licking my wounds. DC schools...fun.

[Anonymous]

OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

I agree with you OP. It sucks. And for PK3/PK4, the whole point is that you are not guaranteed a spot at your IB. Preference, yes, but if a round 2 IB family gets bumped up ahead of round 1 families, that makes it more than just a preference. I wonder if other schools are doing it differently because I got in off the waitlist in round 1 with proximity preference OOB. But I noticed others who were IB in round 2 and they didn't go ahead of me.

[Anonymous]

Pk3 and 4 aren't mandatory grades to be enrolled in a public school or any other school for that matter. Why get yourself all worked up over a IB family bumping you. You can easily keep your child where they are now and enroll them in K.

[Anonymous]

Is it possible these one or two students moved in bounds between lotteries 1 and 2... It's a migrant city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pk3 and 4 aren't mandatory grades to be enrolled in a public school or any other school for that matter. Why get yourself all worked up over a IB family bumping you. You can easily keep your child where they are now and enroll them in K.

Because if you don't get in at PK3 or 4 you don't get in at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - I was under the same impression as you. That anyone from the second round, regardless of preference, would come after those on the 1st round waitlist. It would only put them ahead of those in round 2 without preference. That does not seem fair. If the IB people really wanted that spot (like a person who actually applied during round 1), they had their opportunity to apply in round 1. They passed up that opportunity.

No. Going to your neighborhood school trumps all the other weights, as it should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

Here's an idea : go to your neighborhood school, where you'll have that same IB preference for pk4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

I agree with you OP. It sucks. And for PK3/PK4, the whole point is that you are not guaranteed a spot at your IB. Preference, yes, but if a round 2 IB family gets bumped up ahead of round 1 families, that makes it more than just a preference. I wonder if other schools are doing it differently because I got in off the waitlist in round 1 with proximity preference OOB. But I noticed others who were IB in round 2 and they didn't go ahead of me.

Well you are not on the wait list on e you are in. I do not think IB trumps once you have been offerred a spot and accepted it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

Here's an idea : go to your neighborhood school, where you'll have that same IB preference for pk4.

Thanks for the tip!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

People move into the city after the lotteries. They have a right to go to the IB school at K, so why would the school want to fill up a PK spot with an OOB kid and then have to take the IB kid at K, thereby oversubscribing the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

People move into the city after the lotteries. They have a right to go to the IB school at K, so why would the school want to fill up a PK spot with an OOB kid and then have to take the IB kid at K, thereby oversubscribing the school.

You're assuming that the sections of PreK at every school equals the sections of K. That is not the case in many schools. In my child's school K accommodates twice as any child as PreK. This means that all IB students on this years waitlist will be accommodated next year with the school still needing to go to the waitlist for a few spots. So this is a false argument for some schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

People move into the city after the lotteries. They have a right to go to the IB school at K, so why would the school want to fill up a PK spot with an OOB kid and then have to take the IB kid at K, thereby oversubscribing the school.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I am all for neighborhood schools too but why have a second round lottery if IB can bump you at any time. There's no need to apply OOB in the lottery now.

Here's an idea : go to your neighborhood school, where you'll have that same IB preference for pk4.

Oh so true!! But it's too late if OP didn't apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pk3 and 4 aren't mandatory grades to be enrolled in a public school or any other school for that matter. Why get yourself all worked up over a IB family bumping you. You can easily keep your child where they are now and enroll them in K.

Because if you don't get in at PK3 or 4 you don't get in at all.

For charters perhaps, but not your IB school.