Lists are in-- Swami is ready!

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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

Truly. This could have been a fun thread and a good way to work out lottery stress and jitters. Instead it was just page after page of sanctimony, a little bit of lottery talk, and now whining about a niche situation (twins) that, as has been established, is actually really beneficial to parents in that situation! Tiresome.

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1 Washington Yu Ying PCS - #11
2 Bancroft Elementary School - English Dominant - #95
3 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - J.F. Cook Campus - #33
4 Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS - Kingsbury - #36
5 Brent Elementary School - #60
6 Peabody Elementary School - #50
7 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS Enrolled

Don't expect we have a chance anywhere other than Yu Ying. Happy our #7 choice, Inspired, somehow worked. We live close to Inspired in Bloomingdale, but thought there wasn't any in-boundary preference.

Jumped from #11 to #4 at Yu Ying yesterday. Now we really have our hopes up. Would be heartbreaking if we don't make it now.

Just an idea - email the registrar and say you’re 4th and really want to go and ask what to expect?

Do schools also have some leeway with the number of kids in each class? I.e. do spots only open up if someone uinenrolls or could a school add a few kids to a class?

It depends. Preschool class sizes are set by the adult-child ratio. But there are two seats reserved for Early Stages placements that don't happen until October, and can be used if there is a compelling reason (e.g., twins puts the school one kid over their target number but they are confident someone will leave before October because that is past experience. After preschool the class sizes can be bigger, schools have a target number but can go over and many build in an assumption of some attrition in August and September as waitlists move. There are also room physical capacity limits and fire caps for the building.

What does this mean? I have twins that are matched at different schools and am getting a little antsy that there has been no movement on either waitlist (they are #1 on each other's waitlist). Will a school maybe let a twin in if there is no movement? What does the two spaces reserved for Early Stages mean? They will take from a different pool of kids rather than the waitlist??

I am the twin parent PP and related this might sound insensitive as I just looked up Early Stages and realize it is for kids who might need more assistance etc/ SN. Just moved to DC with rising PK4 twins so was not aware. But am still curious if that means that kids might be pulled in from Early Stages over kids on the lottery and the schools won't know until October if they are using those spots? We would love to have our twins at the same school and trying to temper expectations

The Early Stages spots are for kids who have IEPs. Kids can get an IEP at anytime or move into DC with an IEP at any time so spots are kept open to ensure these kids can get their needs met. Placement can happen earlier than October and does. It's kind of an odd system. My child both got in through lottery to our IB school (which is highly regarded) and Early Stages placed them at the same school. I requested to keep the lottery spot to open the ES spot to a child who would not otherwise have gotten in, but ultimately it was up to the school and they chose to open the lottery spot up. In that case the Early Stages system actually worked to move someone else in from the lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:Help Swami/Seer/Rabbit! For PreK3:

1) LAMB (South Dakota)
2) LAMB (Kingsbury)
3) Bruce Monroe (IB)
4) CMI (sibling preference)
5) DC Bilingual
6) Lee Montessori
7) MV- Calle Ocho
8) MV- JF Cook
9) MMBDA
10) Lee Montessori- East End

You’re in Park View and able to commute to Lee EE? Even if you work that way, that’s a long time for your kid to be in the car every day. What about holidays and sick days?

It says it's only a 15 minute drive from home when I check Waze with the "Go Later" feature to account for traffic. I know a lot of traffic is off the roads though because of COVID (work from home, virtual learning)...is it really bad traffic in normal times? Also my husband and I are both teachers so we are off for all school holidays and also have flexibility leaving if she gets sick.

Yes, it is very bad in normal times.

Ha - yes, you need to double the commute time right now to get a sense of what it will be post pandemic. Or triple. We're flying across the city in the morning these days.

I live near LEE EE and you should expect that to be more like 30 minutes.