Selective high school recommendations

[Anonymous]

My fellow splenetics, I would like to offer thanks to recommenders after my son is accepted somewhere. Do you think that is acceptable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fellow splenetics, I would like to offer thanks to recommenders after my son is accepted somewhere. Do you think that is acceptable?

My kid wrote a TY note to each teacher and we included a $30 gift card. We sent them once the last recommendation had been submitted (we didn't wait for an acceptance).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

You are insane. Banneker seems quite clearly to be reviewing complete applications and inviting kids to interview on a rolling basis. This is extremely normal and in no world does it "hurt" your kid. Stand down.

How is that “insane”? Child has 4.0 and is *still* waiting on a recommendation. Where does it say they’re contacting kids on a rolling basis? I guess I wait until midnight and then I won’t be insane??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

You are insane. Banneker seems quite clearly to be reviewing complete applications and inviting kids to interview on a rolling basis. This is extremely normal and in no world does it "hurt" your kid. Stand down.

How is that “insane”? Child has 4.0 and is *still* waiting on a recommendation. Where does it say they’re contacting kids on a rolling basis? I guess I wait until midnight and then I won’t be insane??

Teachers waiting until the last day does not hurt your kid—that’s what people are trying to tell you. If your rec does not come in, that could be different. Even then, schools can overlook that because it happens to a lot of kids. But that’s not what you initially asked about. If your rec comes in, even just under the wire, just like hundreds of other kids, that does not hurt your kid. Your kid is not special in this scenario. No one is a victim here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

You are insane. Banneker seems quite clearly to be reviewing complete applications and inviting kids to interview on a rolling basis. This is extremely normal and in no world does it "hurt" your kid. Stand down.

How is that “insane”? Child has 4.0 and is *still* waiting on a recommendation. Where does it say they’re contacting kids on a rolling basis? I guess I wait until midnight and then I won’t be insane??

Teachers waiting until the last day does not hurt your kid—that’s what people are trying to tell you. If your rec does not come in, that could be different. Even then, schools can overlook that because it happens to a lot of kids. But that’s not what you initially asked about. If your rec comes in, even just under the wire, just like hundreds of other kids, that does not hurt your kid. Your kid is not special in this scenario. No one is a victim here.

Why aren’t teachers given official time for this? Ridiculous what is expected of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

It doesn’t hurt kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

The order in which they interview has no bearing on whether a kid gets in. They make decisions once all the interviews are complete. It’s not a race to the interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying "it isn't in their job description" doesn't hold water when we're asking DCPS teachers to write recommendations to adhere to a DCPS policy for applications to DCPS schools. DCPS even dictates which teachers much write these.

Did DCPS talk to the Union before or after they dictated this?
(Note- the answer is they did not talk to them at all)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

You are insane. Banneker seems quite clearly to be reviewing complete applications and inviting kids to interview on a rolling basis. This is extremely normal and in no world does it "hurt" your kid. Stand down.

How is that “insane”? Child has 4.0 and is *still* waiting on a recommendation. Where does it say they’re contacting kids on a rolling basis? I guess I wait until midnight and then I won’t be insane??

Teachers waiting until the last day does not hurt your kid—that’s what people are trying to tell you. If your rec does not come in, that could be different. Even then, schools can overlook that because it happens to a lot of kids. But that’s not what you initially asked about. If your rec comes in, even just under the wire, just like hundreds of other kids, that does not hurt your kid. Your kid is not special in this scenario. No one is a victim here.

Why aren’t teachers given official time for this? Ridiculous what is expected of them.

Agree. The fact that high school teachers have to grade major papers in their free time is absurd. Not to mention the dozens of other requirements on their time outside of 40 hours a week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So a separate thread says Banneker is already reaching out for interviews…tell me how the waiting until the last day doesn’t hurt kids?!?

You are insane. Banneker seems quite clearly to be reviewing complete applications and inviting kids to interview on a rolling basis. This is extremely normal and in no world does it "hurt" your kid. Stand down.

How is that “insane”? Child has 4.0 and is *still* waiting on a recommendation. Where does it say they’re contacting kids on a rolling basis? I guess I wait until midnight and then I won’t be insane??

Teachers waiting until the last day does not hurt your kid—that’s what people are trying to tell you. If your rec does not come in, that could be different. Even then, schools can overlook that because it happens to a lot of kids. But that’s not what you initially asked about. If your rec comes in, even just under the wire, just like hundreds of other kids, that does not hurt your kid. Your kid is not special in this scenario. No one is a victim here.

Why aren’t teachers given official time for this? Ridiculous what is expected of them.

Agree. The fact that high school teachers have to grade major papers in their free time is absurd. Not to mention the dozens of other requirements on their time outside of 40 hours a week.

OP here. The recommendation was not put in, but the bigger problem is the expectation on middle and high school teachers to write recommendations outside without proper compensation.

[Anonymous]

NP, we just had a recommendation put in this evening (like during the Superbowl). My guess, to echo the thread, is it's just overworked staff that don't get a ton of time to do this. So we are just going to not sweat it. Teachers are doing the best they can.