myschooldc kicking my son out of school

[Anonymous]

OP, when you disenrolled your older child from the first school I have to assume you had a conversation with someone. The principal? The registrar? You didn’t just ghost them I hope. How did the status of your three-year-old not come up? You didn’t ask to confirm that he could stay? If you have permission from the principal to stay my school DC would not be hassling you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the scenario is you enrolled your older child in your wotp very desirable in boundary school and knew you could do it last minute since you have a right to go there. And since your IB doesn’t offer pk3 you wanted to use it free free at another school. Tough, lady.

And if this is what happened, shame on you, OP for doing that to your older child’s school. Springing a newly enrolled child on your inboundary school is how we get overcrowding. Your school wasn’t prepared for him and had to be added to an already set class at the last minute. That sucks for the teacher, your kid and everyone honestly. If your older child had gotten a last minute lottery spot you would have said that inYour OP. You were trying to be slick and beat the system.

Relax, the school will still get funding for said student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's ease up on the OP re: enrolling in a new school one-day before school starts. There's no indication s/he's WOTP. For all we know it's for a charter and their number finally came up to the top of the list one day before school started. Happens all of the time and through count day...

No way. She would have mentioned this from the start to bolster her case for the anonymous hoard. She had a plan, hoped it would work and got busted. You risked and lost.

[Anonymous]

To start I think everyone is over analyzing this as we did not know this policy from the start. I would be surprised that anyone did. To call me entitled is far fetched, you have no idea. Those throwing those comments are the ones that are more likely entitled. I never tried to beat a system I didnt know of. My oldest son got accepted two days before school started into a higher seeded lottery school. We were emailed by myschooldc for the lottery spot. We didnt plan for this. We had 1 day to decide and went forward with moving him to the other school. Can everyone honestly say they knew about this policy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the scenario is you enrolled your older child in your wotp very desirable in boundary school and knew you could do it last minute since you have a right to go there. And since your IB doesn’t offer pk3 you wanted to use it free free at another school. Tough, lady.

And if this is what happened, shame on you, OP for doing that to your older child’s school. Springing a newly enrolled child on your inboundary school is how we get overcrowding. Your school wasn’t prepared for him and had to be added to an already set class at the last minute. That sucks for the teacher, your kid and everyone honestly. If your older child had gotten a last minute lottery spot you would have said that inYour OP. You were trying to be slick and beat the system.

Relax, the school will still get funding for said student.

The disruption to the school/class argument is super exaggerated for that grade level. Beginning of year always has lots of transition.

Pulling the older kid out definitely put the sib preference at risk for the first time in school kid. Probably should have waited a few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Hard spot to be in since it’s like choosing between kids... does the higher lottery school have a pre-k? Does your in-boundary school have a pre-k? You might have to do day care for another year

But yes, many of us on DCUM know the nuances and scrutiny of sibling preference at beginning of year, especially if the school is high demand. Sometimes even siblings get waitlisted at some schools, so your older kid moving bumped up another kid (probably another sibling pref from a waitlisted family with kids at the same school)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To start I think everyone is over analyzing this as we did not know this policy from the start. I would be surprised that anyone did. To call me entitled is far fetched, you have no idea. Those throwing those comments are the ones that are more likely entitled. I never tried to beat a system I didnt know of. My oldest son got accepted two days before school started into a higher seeded lottery school. We were emailed by myschooldc for the lottery spot. We didnt plan for this. We had 1 day to decide and went forward with moving him to the other school. Can everyone honestly say they knew about this policy?

OP, we could have easily found ourselves in this situation this year. (I'm PP with the PS and 5th grader.) But yes, we did know about the preference for sibling enrolled policy and would have talked to the current school before making a decision and/or switch for the older. I presume your younger child will now have sib preference at the higher ranked school and you would like them both there? If thats the case, hang tight and that will easily happen before count day. Again, if you want your younger child to stay where they are, talk to admin face to face right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the scenario is you enrolled your older child in your wotp very desirable in boundary school and knew you could do it last minute since you have a right to go there. And since your IB doesn’t offer pk3 you wanted to use it free free at another school. Tough, lady.

And if this is what happened, shame on you, OP for doing that to your older child’s school. Springing a newly enrolled child on your inboundary school is how we get overcrowding. Your school wasn’t prepared for him and had to be added to an already set class at the last minute. That sucks for the teacher, your kid and everyone honestly. If your older child had gotten a last minute lottery spot you would have said that inYour OP. You were trying to be slick and beat the system.

Relax, the school will still get funding for said student.

It’s not about funding although it could be because if count day reveals that a school has more students than the budget is based on DCPS doesn’t have to give the school more money. Anyway. When she didn’t enroll over the summer, the school may have decided to go to the waitlist to fill a spot they thought would go to an in-boundary child. Then OP shows up the first day of school claiming her guaranteed spot. Now the school has an additional kid they weren’t planning on and since all wotp schools are packed it just adds to the problem. (Which is compounded when you start talking about Deal and Wilson). If multiple families try this stunt then you just exacerbate the problem.

[Anonymous]

OP, it’s your responsibility to know and have contingencies.

It sucks, I know. You are experiencing the down side of school choice. But you are actually one of the lucky ones, one of the winners because your older DC got into a school you think is better. Many people were not so lucky.

Throw yourself on the mercy of the school that wasn’t good enough for your older DC. But don’t cry about the unfairness of it all when you are better off than many. They won’t appreciate that.

[Anonymous]

OP, we could have easily found ourselves in this situation this year. (I'm PP with the PS and 5th grader.) But yes, we did know about the preference for sibling enrolled policy and would have talked to the current school before making a decision and/or switch for the older. I presume your younger child will now have sib preference at the higher ranked school and you would like them both there? If thats the case, hang tight and that will easily happen before count day. Again, if you want your younger child to stay where they are, talk to admin face to face right away.


Yes my youngest is on the waitlist at the new school with sibling offered, pretty far back though. We will meet with the principal today. Thanks for the comments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

OP, we could have easily found ourselves in this situation this year. (I'm PP with the PS and 5th grader.) But yes, we did know about the preference for sibling enrolled policy and would have talked to the current school before making a decision and/or switch for the older. I presume your younger child will now have sib preference at the higher ranked school and you would like them both there? If thats the case, hang tight and that will easily happen before count day. Again, if you want your younger child to stay where they are, talk to admin face to face right away.

Yes my youngest is on the waitlist at the new school with sibling offered, pretty far back though. We will meet with the principal today. Thanks for the comments.

This was us too. Older DC had been at the school and younger DC got in with sibling preference. Then older DC got into an amazing school right before school started and we took the spot. However, we checked with both myschooldc and the school to ensure that younger DC would still have a spot at the original school before we accepted the new spot. It turned out that younger DC had a great lottery and number and would have got in anyway. In our case, older DC has some special needs that make the new school a better fit. We really want younger DC to stay at the old school to learn the target language though.

Good luck OP. I hope your younger DC gets in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

OP, we could have easily found ourselves in this situation this year. (I'm PP with the PS and 5th grader.) But yes, we did know about the preference for sibling enrolled policy and would have talked to the current school before making a decision and/or switch for the older. I presume your younger child will now have sib preference at the higher ranked school and you would like them both there? If thats the case, hang tight and that will easily happen before count day. Again, if you want your younger child to stay where they are, talk to admin face to face right away.

Yes my youngest is on the waitlist at the new school with sibling offered, pretty far back though. We will meet with the principal today. Thanks for the comments.

Try and go into your meeting with some self-awareness. You bailed on that principal’s school in preference of another, the day before school started. I really hope you disenrolled formally or let the school know in some way and didn’t just ghost them. And yes, I knew about the policy and while it’s a tough lesson to learn, it was your job to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, the system is working the way it should. You only moved your older child the day before school started in hopes of avoiding this by thinking they wouldn’t notice and you know it. There’s nothing to fight. Move along and play by the rules.

Agree 100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To start I think everyone is over analyzing this as we did not know this policy from the start. I would be surprised that anyone did. To call me entitled is far fetched, you have no idea. Those throwing those comments are the ones that are more likely entitled. I never tried to beat a system I didnt know of. My oldest son got accepted two days before school started into a higher seeded lottery school. We were emailed by myschooldc for the lottery spot. We didnt plan for this. We had 1 day to decide and went forward with moving him to the other school. Can everyone honestly say they knew about this policy?

Oof tough one. Yes everyone on DCUM probably knows this policy but not the general DC parent (this is a hyper aware group). I for one am surprised they actually are enforcing it this fast and strictly but it’s probably in case people are doing bait and switch as mentioned above. I would talk to the principal and explain your ignorance, but they may not budge because clearly you’d move the younger kid if and when you can (likely next year). It hinges on whether they take pity on you or not. If not then not much you can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did you move your older kid the day before school started?

Because she was hoping nobody would notice.

That plan backfired. Now plan B is to talk about how cruel it would be to move Larlo after the school year already started.

OP is a crappy parent.

Oh, please! The older child probably got off the waitlist at a school the family preferred, and the parents assumed that since the younger child was enrolled, the older child's changes wouldn't affect the younger. I had the same thing happen to me a few years ago. I talked to the school and MSDC and they both told me the same thing -- if the older child left the school, the younger would lose the spot he'd gotten due to sibling preference. I didn't realize that was how it worked . . . I thought after you'd enrolled a child, the spot was locked in and all the lottery stuff (how they got the spot) was over. However, as OP is discovering, this is not how it works. Sorry OP.