Where is CM moving to?

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Anonymous wrote:Many schools last year just out the list online. Don't know why that would be hard to do for CM, LAMB, and other non-common lottery schools. Could follow up with a postcard too.

I hated when the listed my kids name online like that.

Not me. There is also an accountability to it by making it public. Schools generally put the first name and last initial, along with the birthdate.

My child has a very unique name, first name last initial will identify her.

Yes, why does it bother you so much?

I wish I was so naive as to have to ask this question. You must live in a pretty, pretty world.

Dear, if you live in such a shelter that your daughter's unique name posted on a school waiting list, you have no clue about the real world. I'm sure your daughter's name has appeared somewhere in FB (whether yours or friend/family), your daughter's name will appear in a newspaper if she makes a soccer goal, and it will appear on the school's website when she wins an award or in a club.

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Anonymous wrote:Many schools last year just out the list online. Don't know why that would be hard to do for CM, LAMB, and other non-common lottery schools. Could follow up with a postcard too.

I hated when the listed my kids name online like that.

Not me. There is also an accountability to it by making it public. Schools generally put the first name and last initial, along with the birthdate.

My child has a very unique name, first name last initial will identify her.

Yes, why does it bother you so much?

I wish I was so naive as to have to ask this question. You must live in a pretty, pretty world.

Please, do enlighten those of us in our "pretty pretty world", what is the problem with having a child with a unique name have their first name and last initial listed? I have such a child, never met another yet with her name (although it's in a baby name book so someone has heard it before!), and been on publicly listed waitlists twice. Zero problem.

What is the big bad problem that all of you in the "gritty gritty real world" see with this? Concrete examples please, not silly "oh you're so naive but I can't think of an actual example so I'm just going to be condescending".

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Not the previous posters, but my DC is currently in a private. I would rather the school not know that we are applying to publics until we have gotten in somewhere and have made the decision to attend. D.C. is small, and I can imagine that another parent in my situation would prefer that the names not be publicly disclosed with first name and initial to avoid being "outed." The politics at privates can sometimes be very tricky--especially if you end up being at the school and need recommendations and what not later.

I attended the CM lottery and saw both the name of my neighbor's kid and a former coworker's kid. So I knew info about them that maybe they did not want me to know. At the end of the day, this thread has gotten needlessly off track. Some people don't want the list published publicly and others don't see a problem with it.

People have the right to their opinions and do not need to justify their positions one way or the other. Move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not the previous posters, but my DC is currently in a private. I would rather the school not know that we are applying to publics until we have gotten in somewhere and have made the decision to attend. D.C. is small, and I can imagine that another parent in my situation would prefer that the names not be publicly disclosed with first name and initial to avoid being "outed." The politics at privates can sometimes be very tricky--especially if you end up being at the school and need recommendations and what not later.

I attended the CM lottery and saw both the name of my neighbor's kid and a former coworker's kid. So I knew info about them that maybe they did not want me to know. At the end of the day, this thread has gotten needlessly off track. Some people don't want the list published publicly and others don't see a problem with it.

People have the right to their opinions and do not need to justify their positions one way or the other. Move on.

Right, because te private schools are all scouring th waitlists of the few charter schools that are outside the common lottery. Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not the previous posters, but my DC is currently in a private. I would rather the school not know that we are applying to publics until we have gotten in somewhere and have made the decision to attend. D.C. is small, and I can imagine that another parent in my situation would prefer that the names not be publicly disclosed with first name and initial to avoid being "outed." The politics at privates can sometimes be very tricky--especially if you end up being at the school and need recommendations and what not later.

I attended the CM lottery and saw both the name of my neighbor's kid and a former coworker's kid. So I knew info about them that maybe they did not want me to know. At the end of the day, this thread has gotten needlessly off track. Some people don't want the list published publicly and others don't see a problem with it.

People have the right to their opinions and do not need to justify their positions one way or the other. Move on.

So private schools are looking at public school lotteries?

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People are looking at lotteries. People communicate. Parents talk. D.C. is small.

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Anonymous wrote:People are looking at lotteries. People communicate. Parents talk. D.C. is small.

So what?

If you are really this paranoid, you should only apply to schools in the common lottery where everything is available by tracking number rather than name. Anyone could have gone to the CM lottery and seen the results, even if they are all officially communicated by postcard after-the-fact. I do not understand why it matters that someone knows what waitlist # your family has or that your kid got in. I say that as a parent to a child with a unique name that would definitely be identifiable if someone saw it.

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Anonymous wrote:Many schools last year just out the list online. Don't know why that would be hard to do for CM, LAMB, and other non-common lottery schools. Could follow up with a postcard too.

I hated when the listed my kids name online like that.

Not me. There is also an accountability to it by making it public. Schools generally put the first name and last initial, along with the birthdate.

My child has a very unique name, first name last initial will identify her.

Yes, why does it bother you so much?

I wish I was so naive as to have to ask this question. You must live in a pretty, pretty world.

Dear, if you live in such a shelter that your daughter's unique name posted on a school waiting list, you have no clue about the real world. I'm sure your daughter's name has appeared somewhere in FB (whether yours or friend/family), your daughter's name will appear in a newspaper if she makes a soccer goal, and it will appear on the school's website when she wins an award or in a club.

Is the "dear" supposed to be intimidating?

I used to work in a prison with sex offenders and rapists "treating" them to return to society. My clue about the real world, is that I know what kind of people walk among us.

And while I don't have full control about where her name shows up in this world, I don't have to be happy about it. My job is to protect her privacy until she is old enough to decide what she wants to do with it herself.

But, I get it - you are a closet mommy blogger! You post naked shower pictures of your child on Face-twit-agram. Good for you!

[Anonymous]

Did anyone ever get the bottom of the original question, or was the final conclusion that CM is still considering its options, one of them being to stay put?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone ever get the bottom of the original question, or was the final conclusion that CM is still considering its options, one of them being to stay put?

It's not final.

[Anonymous]

Looks like CM is publicly announcing their intention to relocate to the Sherman Bldg at Old Soldiers' Home. Their March newsletter is up on their home page, and it says "We are continuing to work on the lease for the Sherman Building facility for the 2014 – 2015 school year and beyond."

[Anonymous]

Here is the newsletter.


http://www.creativemindspcs.org/March%202014.pdf