LAMB app. Questions

[Anonymous]

Is there a Spanish dominant lottery at LAMB and does applying early give any advantage? Helpful and positive answers only please!

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Applying early does not give any advantage. I believe their charter allows them to strive for a balance between the languages, but I'm not sure how that works.

[Anonymous]

I submitted my application at the very last open house and got in off the wait list. There are no questions about language ability on the application but I estimate 2/3 of my child's class to be bilingual. This includes students whose parents are not native speakers but are fluent in spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I submitted my application at the very last open house and got in off the wait list. There are no questions about language ability on the application but I estimate 2/3 of my child's class to be bilingual. This includes students whose parents are not native speakers but are fluent in spanish.

Did you have a sibling preference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Applying early does not give any advantage. I believe their charter allows them to strive for a balance between the languages, but I'm not sure how that works.

Anyone know more about this?

[Anonymous]

Two years ago a person who was FAR above me on the waitlist (their number was much higher than ours) got into LAMB off the waitlist and I did not. They had a spanish-dominant household, and a girl. We have an english-dominant household and a boy. I was told LAMB likes to have similar numbers of boys and girls in the classes and similar number of spanish-dominant households vs. english dominant households.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two years ago a person who was FAR above me on the waitlist (their number was much higher than ours) got into LAMB off the waitlist and I did not. They had a spanish-dominant household, and a girl. We have an english-dominant household and a boy. I was told LAMB likes to have similar numbers of boys and girls in the classes and similar number of spanish-dominant households vs. english dominant households.

Where do they ask for this dominance info. I was told the application doesn't ask for dominance. Is this true?

[Anonymous]

When I applied a couple years so I was asked about languages. Maybe it has changed recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two years ago a person who was FAR above me on the waitlist (their number was much higher than ours) got into LAMB off the waitlist and I did not. They had a spanish-dominant household, and a girl. We have an english-dominant household and a boy. I was told LAMB likes to have similar numbers of boys and girls in the classes and similar number of spanish-dominant households vs. english dominant households.

Where do they ask for this dominance info. I was told the application doesn't ask for dominance. Is this true?

[Anonymous]

It used to be on their application. When I applied there was a question. This was 2 years ago though.

[Anonymous]

It's weird how the Spanish bilinguals ask about the dominant language on their applicant, but the Chinese bilingual does not.

[Anonymous]

I think it's because charter rules changed. Current charter rules do not allow to give preference to native speakers. Mindo Verde found the same thing--can't give preference, can just target recruiting.

[Anonymous]

The only Spanish bilingual school that asked about language dominance was LAMB which had a waiver by the charter board to ask. This may have changed with current applicants.

No other language charter, Spanish or Chinese, asks about language dominance per charter law.

[Anonymous]

Anyone in the know on this? I called a few months back and the person I spoke to said they try to keep a balance and have a preference for Span. dominant, but there was nothing in writing about this. Anyone have any "official" info. What's the language of the waiver that used to be out there?