Lists are in-- Swami is ready!

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Anonymous wrote:Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap. Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.

No, they could design software to make this work. They just don't want to go to the extra length to do so. And my guess is that you don't have twins and may even benefit from sibling preference for your string of singletons. You will take your benefit just not extend it to someone else.

Software to change the federal Head Start regulation on class size?

You seem strangely bitter. There is already a sibling preference that, most of the time puts both kids at the same school whether they are twins, multiples, or in different grades. And some families choose to split up their kids to gain access to a preferred school for both in the following year, but that is their choice and they don't have to do it. Very very rare is the family that literally has no choice but to separate their twins.

The sibling preference absolutely benefits at twins. At our charter (which enjoys long waitlists every year, which is simply to say families want to be there), every class my kids have ever been in has multiple twins - there is such a vast overrepresentation of twins, that it is a well-known and remarked upon fact among our group of friends (many of which are twin parents). Of course there are significant challenges to having multiples, no one is disputing that - but the school lottery set-up is not one of those hardships.

As per my reply to someone else, this must've occurred within the last fifteen years as sibling preference did not include multiples. Glad to see that there has been change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap. Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.

NP here,

There should be an option where twins are placed together from the start. So, let's say that Twin A's name is drawn, and he places into the 3rd choice school, then Twin B also gets a space in that school, and one less kid is added from further down the lottery list.

It really wouldn't be hard, and it wouldn't impact preschool class sizes.

Exactly! I'm the supposedly "strangely bitter" PP. Software can definitely do that, but there has to be a will to do so.

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Anonymous wrote:Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap. Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.

NP here,

There should be an option where twins are placed together from the start. So, let's say that Twin A's name is drawn, and he places into the 3rd choice school, then Twin B also gets a space in that school, and one less kid is added from further down the lottery list.

It really wouldn't be hard, and it wouldn't impact preschool class sizes.

Exactly! I'm the supposedly "strangely bitter" PP. Software can definitely do that, but there has to be a will to do so.

Seriously, again, this works out for almost all families with multiples already just by being first on the waitlist. It's not really worth coding something in for such a rare scenario.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap. Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.

No, they could design software to make this work. They just don't want to go to the extra length to do so. And my guess is that you don't have twins and may even benefit from sibling preference for your string of singletons. You will take your benefit just not extend it to someone else.

Software to change the federal Head Start regulation on class size?

You seem strangely bitter. There is already a sibling preference that, most of the time puts both kids at the same school whether they are twins, multiples, or in different grades. And some families choose to split up their kids to gain access to a preferred school for both in the following year, but that is their choice and they don't have to do it. Very very rare is the family that literally has no choice but to separate their twins.

Seriously? I just can't with the willful misreading. Nothing I wrote was about increase in class size, exclusively related to class assignment.

I don't think "strangely bitter" is an accurate description of a working parent who tried to navigate DCPS fifteen years ago, seeking to enroll twins in PreK @ same school that offered more than one class/grade. We ultimately did not send our DCs to DCPS as we could not be guaranteed spots at the same school. No one seemed to care that working parents couldn't race across one, two, maybe three wards to leave and pick up kids from different schools with arrivals/dismissals at the same time and still hold jobs. Back then, the stance was that sibling preference was only extended to families of consecutive singletons, but not multiples. Gathering a lot has changed. While we were not successful, I hope our lobbying may have contributed to a more accommodating stance. I would describe that as anything but "strangely bitter" but you do you.

It is strange that you are angry about something 15 years ago and are only just now finding out that the common lottery has different rules than what you experienced. Maybe time to let it go?

Didn't realize there was a DCUM time limit on how long one can opine on a topic. I happened upon this thread after a DC friend suggested I check out another here in the DC school forum - haven't lived in DMV for awhile but she knew I would be interested. And then who cannot be enticed by a subject line including the "Swami is ready." So I clicked on it, scrolled through, then commented after reading the twin posts having BTDT. I didn't really think what I wrote was such a big deal - and also had no idea that the sibling preference policy now covers multiples. Kudos to DCPS.

For parents of only children, yes, this is very hard. There are instances in their current school where such treatment covers twins - e.g., parents who have older children can request a different college counselor if they didn't like the one their older child had. Consequently, they get the best ones and the less desired ones go to the oldest/only/multiple kids get the leftovers. And if your kids are in the last two categories, then that will be your only shot.

GL to all - hope everyone gets the best match possible for their families - Swami, what say you?

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15 years ago there wasn’t even a central lottery, so of course things were entirely different. Why are you on this thread randomly complaining about your experience in a different system 15 years ago?

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Anonymous wrote:15 years ago there wasn’t even a central lottery, so of course things were entirely different. Why are you on this thread randomly complaining about your experience in a different system 15 years ago?

Really?

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For the love of God, why is the twin convo still going on?

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Anonymous wrote:Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap. Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.

No, they could design software to make this work. They just don't want to go to the extra length to do so. And my guess is that you don't have twins and may even benefit from sibling preference for your string of singletons. You will take your benefit just not extend it to someone else.

Software to change the federal Head Start regulation on class size?

You seem strangely bitter. There is already a sibling preference that, most of the time puts both kids at the same school whether they are twins, multiples, or in different grades. And some families choose to split up their kids to gain access to a preferred school for both in the following year, but that is their choice and they don't have to do it. Very very rare is the family that literally has no choice but to separate their twins.

Seriously? I just can't with the willful misreading. Nothing I wrote was about increase in class size, exclusively related to class assignment.

I don't think "strangely bitter" is an accurate description of a working parent who tried to navigate DCPS fifteen years ago, seeking to enroll twins in PreK @ same school that offered more than one class/grade. We ultimately did not send our DCs to DCPS as we could not be guaranteed spots at the same school. No one seemed to care that working parents couldn't race across one, two, maybe three wards to leave and pick up kids from different schools with arrivals/dismissals at the same time and still hold jobs. Back then, the stance was that sibling preference was only extended to families of consecutive singletons, but not multiples. Gathering a lot has changed. While we were not successful, I hope our lobbying may have contributed to a more accommodating stance. I would describe that as anything but "strangely bitter" but you do you.

You mean you didn't want to have to do the exact thing that nearly all parents of multiple non-multiples routinely do?

That's fine. But don't pretend like this is some crazy hardship. This is what parents of multiple-aged kids do all the time.

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Ok Swami, what are your thoughts? These are for K with no preferences:

- DC Bilingual #90
- LAMB Kingsbury #110
- LAMB South Dakota #45
- Bruce Monroe English dominant #6
- Mundo Verde calle 8: #67

Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Ok Swami, what are your thoughts? These are for K with no preferences:

- DC Bilingual #90
- LAMB Kingsbury #110
- LAMB South Dakota #45
- Bruce Monroe English dominant #6
- Mundo Verde calle 8: #67

Thanks!

Not Swami, but you’ll definitely get BM, most likely MV, and very slim possibility at LAMB SD. With that list, why no Powell?

[Anonymous]

My prediction is Swami quit because you guys spent 7 pages debating if the word swami is offensive when she is literally just a person who was having fun laying data against school knowledge

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction is Swami quit because you guys spent 7 pages debating if the word swami is offensive when she is literally just a person who was having fun laying data against school knowledge

Swami has started these threads 3 years in a row and quit after a few replies. I think it was four years ago whomever it is actually really participated. This is fine. I think Swami has probably grown to like the fame but not the job!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap. Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.

No, they could design software to make this work. They just don't want to go to the extra length to do so. And my guess is that you don't have twins and may even benefit from sibling preference for your string of singletons. You will take your benefit just not extend it to someone else.

Software to change the federal Head Start regulation on class size?

You seem strangely bitter. There is already a sibling preference that, most of the time puts both kids at the same school whether they are twins, multiples, or in different grades. And some families choose to split up their kids to gain access to a preferred school for both in the following year, but that is their choice and they don't have to do it. Very very rare is the family that literally has no choice but to separate their twins.

Seriously? I just can't with the willful misreading. Nothing I wrote was about increase in class size, exclusively related to class assignment.

I don't think "strangely bitter" is an accurate description of a working parent who tried to navigate DCPS fifteen years ago, seeking to enroll twins in PreK @ same school that offered more than one class/grade. We ultimately did not send our DCs to DCPS as we could not be guaranteed spots at the same school. No one seemed to care that working parents couldn't race across one, two, maybe three wards to leave and pick up kids from different schools with arrivals/dismissals at the same time and still hold jobs. Back then, the stance was that sibling preference was only extended to families of consecutive singletons, but not multiples. Gathering a lot has changed. While we were not successful, I hope our lobbying may have contributed to a more accommodating stance. I would describe that as anything but "strangely bitter" but you do you.

You mean you didn't want to have to do the exact thing that nearly all parents of multiple non-multiples routinely do?

That's fine. But don't pretend like this is some crazy hardship. This is what parents of multiple-aged kids do all the time.

But the system does try to accommodate for siblings at same school hence sibling preference and did prior to the lottery. The poster was just seeking the same accommodation for multiples that DCPS didn't allow for at that time.

[Anonymous]

Twins can get preference at their IB school. Period. Next!

[Anonymous]

i just wish that someone would talk about twins on this thread