LAMB lottery results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PS- the results are back up with first names initialed. Must've been some angry parent voicemails awaiting them this morning.

http://www.lambpcs.org/lottery-results/

I am surprised that they kept last names in there. If they are going to put it online, they should do initials and DOB, or first name and DOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PS- the results are back up with first names initialed. Must've been some angry parent voicemails awaiting them this morning.

http://www.lambpcs.org/lottery-results/

I am surprised that they kept last names in there. If they are going to put it online, they should do initials and DOB, or first name and DOB.

Or how about they put the third letter of the first and last name with the day of the month their birthday falls on minus one? So many ways to do this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you? Why would you apply to a school you didn't think would be a good fit? There are hundreds of families who would LOVE a spot. Thank you for at least doing the right thing once you got what you REALLY wanted. I shudder to think what would have happened if you hadn't gotten your other HRCS.

So get on board with LAMB joining the common lottery, which prevents someone from holding onto multiple spots and makes them rank schools so that someone who doesn't want LAMB but gets a good draw will go elsewhere.

I don't see how that follows. I think you're crazy and I feel really bad for you sincerely because you're off the charts bonkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you? Why would you apply to a school you didn't think would be a good fit? There are hundreds of families who would LOVE a spot. Thank you for at least doing the right thing once you got what you REALLY wanted. I shudder to think what would have happened if you hadn't gotten your other HRCS.

So get on board with LAMB joining the common lottery, which prevents someone from holding onto multiple spots and makes them rank schools so that someone who doesn't want LAMB but gets a good draw will go elsewhere.

I don't see how that follows. I think you're crazy and I feel really bad for you sincerely because you're off the charts bonkers.

Thanks for that analysis! I really appreciate your thoughtful response.

With the common lottery, you cannot hold onto multiple spots, now that MSDC manages waitlists. Also you have to rank your schools, so you don't just apply willy nilly to all schools--you put thought into it, as getting into a school means that you have no chance at schools you rank as less desirable. So people don't just apply to schools for the sake of applying, as they do now with schools like LAMB and Bethune that are outside the common lottery. It also means that people who get a good lottery # effectively have their choice of schools--thus, if they get a good draw and don't want a Montessori dual language school, they'll get into another school instead. As a result, popular schools like LAMB will be filled with people who actually want to be there.

[Anonymous]

You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

What makes you think I'm at a "supposed HRCS"? Or that I am not working on improving my child's school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

By not joining the common lottery, LAMB is enabling the situation where someone who prefers MV gets into LAMB and someone who prefers LAMB gets into MV. These families could do a mutually beneficial trade and both be better off (except that trade is not allowed). If all schools join common lottery, the overall allocation of slots is more efficient and there are no mutually beneficial trades. The Nobel prize in economics went to people who developed this type of common lottery a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

By not joining the common lottery, LAMB is enabling the situation where someone who prefers MV gets into LAMB and someone who prefers LAMB gets into MV. These families could do a mutually beneficial trade and both be better off (except that trade is not allowed). If all schools join common lottery, the overall allocation of slots is more efficient and there are no mutually beneficial trades. The Nobel prize in economics went to people who developed this type of common lottery a few years ago.

I understand THIS point, but before your points were that lamb was doing its lottery based on some bizarre conspiracy theory. People sitting on multiple spots? Definitely agree that's gross. People applying to lamb just because it's the top charter school? Disgusting. But in no way do I think lamb is relying on its lottery to give bigwigs coveted pk3 spots. Sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The common lottery is no longer a "work in progress." That explanation is absurd.

+1 I didnthear about any complaints with the process last year.

+1 At some point, you have to start wondering why a school is holding out and it's pretty easy to think it has something to do with some part of their process that they don't want to give up (ability to show favoritism in some way, etc. ).

I think LAMB should jump in too -- but there are other schools who have not joined. I believe LAMB's administration and Board have been concerned that lower-SES families who are eligible to apply may be less likely to apply to a centrally managed, predominantly online system. While LAMB does have an online application form they also accept paper forms and do a significant amount of outreach outside of the school fairs and open houses that most of us on this forum rely on.

Where? Did I miss them at the Ward 8 education fair this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you? Why would you apply to a school you didn't think would be a good fit? There are hundreds of families who would LOVE a spot. Thank you for at least doing the right thing once you got what you REALLY wanted. I shudder to think what would have happened if you hadn't gotten your other HRCS.

So let me guess you have a 3 or 4 year old? You have NO CLUE how the lottery used to work or how some of the schools in DC used to be.

And honestly, I probably would have sent my kid to LAMB can kept doing the lotteries (like many parents do)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

By not joining the common lottery, LAMB is enabling the situation where someone who prefers MV gets into LAMB and someone who prefers LAMB gets into MV. These families could do a mutually beneficial trade and both be better off (except that trade is not allowed). If all schools join common lottery, the overall allocation of slots is more efficient and there are no mutually beneficial trades. The Nobel prize in economics went to people who developed this type of common lottery a few years ago.

I understand THIS point, but before your points were that lamb was doing its lottery based on some bizarre conspiracy theory. People sitting on multiple spots? Definitely agree that's gross. People applying to lamb just because it's the top charter school? Disgusting. But in no way do I think lamb is relying on its lottery to give bigwigs coveted pk3 spots. Sorry

You do realize that there are multiple people posting, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

By not joining the common lottery, LAMB is enabling the situation where someone who prefers MV gets into LAMB and someone who prefers LAMB gets into MV. These families could do a mutually beneficial trade and both be better off (except that trade is not allowed). If all schools join common lottery, the overall allocation of slots is more efficient and there are no mutually beneficial trades. The Nobel prize in economics went to people who developed this type of common lottery a few years ago.

I understand THIS point, but before your points were that lamb was doing its lottery based on some bizarre conspiracy theory. People sitting on multiple spots? Definitely agree that's gross. People applying to lamb just because it's the top charter school? Disgusting. But in no way do I think lamb is relying on its lottery to give bigwigs coveted pk3 spots. Sorry

Gross and disgusting? You lead a very sheltered life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people at lamb don't want to be there and that is just not true.

Maybe you should focus on improving your supposed HRCS

By not joining the common lottery, LAMB is enabling the situation where someone who prefers MV gets into LAMB and someone who prefers LAMB gets into MV. These families could do a mutually beneficial trade and both be better off (except that trade is not allowed). If all schools join common lottery, the overall allocation of slots is more efficient and there are no mutually beneficial trades. The Nobel prize in economics went to people who developed this type of common lottery a few years ago.

I understand THIS point, but before your points were that lamb was doing its lottery based on some bizarre conspiracy theory. People sitting on multiple spots? Definitely agree that's gross. People applying to lamb just because it's the top charter school? Disgusting. But in no way do I think lamb is relying on its lottery to give bigwigs coveted pk3 spots. Sorry

Gross and disgusting? You lead a very sheltered life. [/]

I feel for you. Truly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The common lottery is no longer a "work in progress." That explanation is absurd.

+1 I didnthear about any complaints with the process last year.

+1 At some point, you have to start wondering why a school is holding out and it's pretty easy to think it has something to do with some part of their process that they don't want to give up (ability to show favoritism in some way, etc. ).

I think LAMB should jump in too -- but there are other schools who have not joined. I believe LAMB's administration and Board have been concerned that lower-SES families who are eligible to apply may be less likely to apply to a centrally managed, predominantly online system. While LAMB does have an online application form they also accept paper forms and do a significant amount of outreach outside of the school fairs and open houses that most of us on this forum rely on.

Where? Did I miss them at the Ward 8 education fair this year?

Yeah, this. It should be very clear after many years of exceptional admissions that LAMB likes to control who applies and who gets in. Charter autonomy working hard to squeeze the most from your tax dollars, people.

[Anonymous]

For the PP's who had kids accepted at LAMB, for what schools from your list in the common lottery will you give up LAMB?