Anyone getting waitlist offers since school started and turning them down?

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Anonymous wrote:This is interesting, we also might get 2 offers this month. I'd be nervous to switch DC though, she is PK3 and adjusting has been ok but a lot to take on. The other 2 schools would be better commutes though and equally good to current in all other measures. I don't have a strong feeling about it, but concerned for her well being.

In my opinion, if the commute is better and everything else is equal, for the long-term benefit I would move her to one with a better commute. I don't imagine she has real strong friendships and attachment to the school if it has only been a month. She would likely adjust quickly enough and over the long-term, you will be so much happier with a better commute. Tough decision, though.

Only switch if you'd stay there several years. If you're hoping to leave for PK4, not worth it.

I am the PP about changing for better commute, and I agree with that. Longer-term it makes more sense, but not for just a year.

Intending to stay through the long term. But, this would require giving up Montessori. So far so good on that part, I guess. Too soon to say.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in PK4 and have turned down two offers. It just isn't worth disrupting, now that we know DC is happily settled with a very well-regarded teacher that she wanted, and classmates she likes and who are at her level in reading etc.. To switch, I think we would need for DC to have an equally strong teacher in the new school, and that would be hard to guarantee unless we had a friend in the classroom who could vouch for the teacher. Our current school is not perfect but I feel like I know what we're dealing with.

Also, there's only so many times I want to move DC. I would probably not disrupt her for a school where we wouldn't stay through at least 5th grade. Some of the other neighborhood schools are on my list more as escape hatches if things go awry at our current school, rather than actual higher preferences. Our sibling preference years are still ahead of us and we will likely move after that kicks in.

All of this would have to be weighed against commute, of course, since we are at our IB and it is very close to home. Having gotten used to the convenience and charm of walking to school, it would be hard to give it up and reshuffle our whole morning and evening routine.

What exactly does "at her level in reading" for PreK mean?
Likes to be read to? Listens to stories? Knows how to hold a book the right way? Recognizes favorite characters?
Seriously, please let them be little kids.

+100

Since you asked, for us it means she can read at the first grade level as assessed by the school and so can one of her classmates. The teacher is doing a good job with them and I would not want to give that up.

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PREK4 seems considerably "easier" to get into, at least in my experience. Last year my child got only 2 offers for PREK3 (but got his #1 choice luckily enough).

After school year started, this year my child got offers for a PREK4 spot for Hyde Addison, Thomson, DC Bilingual, and likely will get called for Elsie Stokes and Two Rivers.

Don't give up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PREK4 seems considerably "easier" to get into, at least in my experience. Last year my child got only 2 offers for PREK3 (but got his #1 choice luckily enough).

After school year started, this year my child got offers for a PREK4 spot for Hyde Addison, Thomson, DC Bilingual, and likely will get called for Elsie Stokes and Two Rivers.

Don't give up.

Sounds like you got a good draw. Don't expect the Stokes WL to move anymore. Where did you end up?

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Why did you lottery for PK4 if you got into your #1 choice for PK3?

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Anonymous wrote:PREK4 seems considerably "easier" to get into, at least in my experience. Last year my child got only 2 offers for PREK3 (but got his #1 choice luckily enough).

After school year started, this year my child got offers for a PREK4 spot for Hyde Addison, Thomson, DC Bilingual, and likely will get called for Elsie Stokes and Two Rivers.

Don't give up.

Our lists moved a lot more for PK3 than PK4. We had shitty draws both years, for twins (so four shitty draws).

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I'm re-upping this. We were just offered a PK4 English-dominant slot at our dual-language IB. The commute would be essentially the same.

It has now been more than a month since school started and we would get in at K next year because it is IB and we have no immediate plans to move. We have no issues with our current school. We are already a two-language family though not Spanish.

Thoughts? Is there some benefit or harm to switching that I did not address?

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Would you be able to get back into your current school if you wanted to?

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Is there an internal lottery for the language side, if you want that?

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(15:08) We could probably get back into our current school.

It is my understanding that there is an internal process for the language program.