How many think EL Haynes lost their application?

[Anonymous]

I was shocked to read on another thread that there were others in our situation. I applied to EL Haynes in early fall for my son for K. I called late last week when I hadn't heard from them after the lottery, and they apparently didn't have our application.

Any others in this situation with EL Haynes?

[Anonymous]

I posted on the other forum. They lost our application initially. We submitted via email in November, I called to follow up late March and discovered they didn't have it and resent it and got confirmation. Still haven't heard on lottery results but i understand that PS3 had no spots for nonsiblings anyway.

[Anonymous]

How many threads are there going to be on this? File a complaint with the charter board already.

[Anonymous]

I've gotta say, I have extremely limited sympathy if you sent in an application and never received a confirmation, followed up, or called to confirm. No, they shouldn't lose applications (if they did) but come on, people, you're grownups. If something is that important, don't you check on it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many threads are there going to be on this? File a complaint with the charter board already.

This is the first thread that names the problem in the title. Not everyone bothers with every thread on this board.

[Anonymous]

I posted on the other thread that I thought ours was lost, but then followed up to say it was just a misspelling.

So I guess I fueled the original fire, but it was a non-issue in the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've gotta say, I have extremely limited sympathy if you sent in an application and never received a confirmation, followed up, or called to confirm. No, they shouldn't lose applications (if they did) but come on, people, you're grownups. If something is that important, don't you check on it?

I agree with this. When we hadn't heard from LAMB weeks after applying, we called and then ended up asking about our application at an Open House, when we finally received confirmation (long before we received the confirmatory postcard).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've gotta say, I have extremely limited sympathy if you sent in an application and never received a confirmation, followed up, or called to confirm. No, they shouldn't lose applications (if they did) but come on, people, you're grownups. If something is that important, don't you check on it?

I agree with this. When we hadn't heard from LAMB weeks after applying, we called and then ended up asking about our application at an Open House, when we finally received confirmation (long before we received the confirmatory postcard).

Maybe it makes some sense to hold well-educated, realatively wealthy parents to this standard. But schools funded by taxpayer money are supposed to be able to serve ALL children, including those whose parents for some reason won't follow up (don't realize they should, are intimidated by the process, have insufficient English skills, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've gotta say, I have extremely limited sympathy if you sent in an application and never received a confirmation, followed up, or called to confirm. No, they shouldn't lose applications (if they did) but come on, people, you're grownups. If something is that important, don't you check on it?

I agree with this. When we hadn't heard from LAMB weeks after applying, we called and then ended up asking about our application at an Open House, when we finally received confirmation (long before we received the confirmatory postcard).

Maybe it makes some sense to hold well-educated, realatively wealthy parents to this standard. But schools funded by taxpayer money are supposed to be able to serve ALL children, including those whose parents for some reason won't follow up (don't realize they should, are intimidated by the process, have insufficient English skills, etc.).

thanks you!

[Anonymous]

I am fairly certain they lost our application for PK. So far they haven't been able to respond to phone calls or emails regarding the matter. I did not follow-up our application email with a phone call to confirm receipt, although in the email I asked them to please confirm receipt which they did not. In fact, I send dozens of important emails every day and I generally don't follow up those emails with a phone call to make sure the email was received. Jebus, isn't that the point of sending it via email in first place?

[Anonymous]

geeze! mistakes and omissions do happen. What is bugging me at this point about this situation is that OP has complained about this on several DCPS/Charter forum threads and it's obvious she wants to make a play for having Haynes throw out their lottery results, which won't happen. You'd probably have better luck filing a legitimate complaint with the charter board or by getting a local paper to report a story about your situation than by trying to get people on a blind message board to say "me too!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am fairly certain they lost our application for PK. So far they haven't been able to respond to phone calls or emails regarding the matter. I did not follow-up our application email with a phone call to confirm receipt, although in the email I asked them to please confirm receipt which they did not. In fact, I send dozens of important emails every day and I generally don't follow up those emails with a phone call to make sure the email was received. Jebus, isn't that the point of sending it via email in first place?

I dropped my application off at the Georgia Ave. campus on the day it was due, 3/31. Another parent dropped hers off a moment after me. Neither one of us asked for a receipt--the "thank you" from the receptionist seemed sufficient.

I have an e-mail in to the enrollment contact asking about our waitlist #. No response yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:geeze! mistakes and omissions do happen. What is bugging me at this point about this situation is that OP has complained about this on several DCPS/Charter forum threads and it's obvious she wants to make a play for having Haynes throw out their lottery results, which won't happen. You'd probably have better luck filing a legitimate complaint with the charter board or by getting a local paper to report a story about your situation than by trying to get people on a blind message board to say "me too!"

Wow, that's not how I read the situation at all--and no, I'm not the OP. Among other things, I think the OP is looking to make sense of what happened. If this is the only child whose application was lost, it's one kind of problem (and probably not worth going to the charter board over--I sure wouldn't). But if there are a dozen or more folks in this boat, there's a big problem, and yes, a call to the charter board may be in order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am fairly certain they lost our application for PK. So far they haven't been able to respond to phone calls or emails regarding the matter. I did not follow-up our application email with a phone call to confirm receipt, although in the email I asked them to please confirm receipt which they did not. In fact, I send dozens of important emails every day and I generally don't follow up those emails with a phone call to make sure the email was received. Jebus, isn't that the point of sending it via email in first place?

I think they lost ours as well. I did get a confirmation that they received the application, but I never heard back regarding our waitlist spot at all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am fairly certain they lost our application for PK. So far they haven't been able to respond to phone calls or emails regarding the matter. I did not follow-up our application email with a phone call to confirm receipt, although in the email I asked them to please confirm receipt which they did not. In fact, I send dozens of important emails every day and I generally don't follow up those emails with a phone call to make sure the email was received. Jebus, isn't that the point of sending it via email in first place?

I think they lost ours as well. I did get a confirmation that they received the application, but I never heard back regarding our waitlist spot at all!

This is our situation as well. Have others received information about their waitlist numbers?