Anyone at the Yu Ying lottery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the siblings numbers do seem high, but if you consider all grade 1-5 X4 classes each, that is pretty reasonable.

1st grade is the jumbo class with 6 classes, 100+ 6/7 yr olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:those days could be gone. I checked. It wasn't in the 60s, we were 49 on the list. it was 2 years ago but the school had been open a while. We didn't find out until the first week of school. Just saying that it did/does move.

how is it going to move this year?
Siblings won't give up spots unless they move (maybe 1 or 2 will leave the District over the summer?)
Then I doubt more than 1 of the lucky 9 (7 + twins) will give up a spot, especially since the odds were so poor elsewhere this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:those days could be gone. I checked. It wasn't in the 60s, we were 49 on the list. it was 2 years ago but the school had been open a while. We didn't find out until the first week of school. Just saying that it did/does move.

how is it going to move this year?
Siblings won't give up spots unless they move (maybe 1 or 2 will leave the District over the summer?)
Then I doubt more than 1 of the lucky 9 (7 + twins) will give up a spot, especially since the odds were so poor elsewhere this year.

The only siblings that would give up a spot would be the ones that one sibling didn't get in and parents don't want to go to more than one school for drop offs and pick ups.

[Anonymous]

You would be shocked but every year families show up to register and have no idea that it is a Chinese school. They've just heard it was good. This school takes a ton of commitment to succeed. You have to be really in to it. Some people who get in decide not to take spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:those days could be gone. I checked. It wasn't in the 60s, we were 49 on the list. it was 2 years ago but the school had been open a while. We didn't find out until the first week of school. Just saying that it did/does move.

how is it going to move this year?
Siblings won't give up spots unless they move (maybe 1 or 2 will leave the District over the summer?)
Then I doubt more than 1 of the lucky 9 (7 + twins) will give up a spot, especially since the odds were so poor elsewhere this year.

The only siblings that would give up a spot would be the ones that one sibling didn't get in and parents don't want to go to more than one school for drop offs and pick ups.

Agreed. I would think the two Pk4s that had an older sibling are likely to decline if the older sib does not get in… PK3 is going to be harder. I wonder if they´ll even move down to the WL with only 5 spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they called your kid's name but you had to be present to win.

Thank you. That was funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You would be shocked but every year families show up to register and have no idea that it is a Chinese school. They've just heard it was good. This school takes a ton of commitment to succeed. You have to be really in to it. Some people who get in decide not to take spots.

But even so, how many parents like that can there be if they only accepted 10 new families? All the sibling kids know what they're in for already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:those days could be gone. I checked. It wasn't in the 60s, we were 49 on the list. it was 2 years ago but the school had been open a while. We didn't find out until the first week of school. Just saying that it did/does move.

how is it going to move this year?
Siblings won't give up spots unless they move (maybe 1 or 2 will leave the District over the summer?)
Then I doubt more than 1 of the lucky 9 (7 + twins) will give up a spot, especially since the odds were so poor elsewhere this year.

The only siblings that would give up a spot would be the ones that one sibling didn't get in and parents don't want to go to more than one school for drop offs and pick ups.

Agreed. I would think the two Pk4s that had an older sibling are likely to decline if the older sib does not get in… PK3 is going to be harder. I wonder if they´ll even move down to the WL with only 5 spots.

But the school tries very hard to accommodate for siblings. Their normal classroom size is 18 but they can easily make it 19.

[Anonymous]

I bet they will try to accommodate those siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man. Wish they could make more YYs!

I think they want to replicate. You should find out. If the demand is there, it could happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh man. Wish they could make more YYs!

I think they want to replicate. You should find out. If the demand is there, it could happen.

I thought the whole point of charter schools was to incubate ideas like Chinese immersion, and transfer to the larger scale of the traditional public school system if it works. Unfortunately, our chancellor thinks the solution is to open more charter schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh man. Wish they could make more YYs!

I think they want to replicate. You should find out. If the demand is there, it could happen.

I thought the whole point of charter schools was to incubate ideas like Chinese immersion, and transfer to the larger scale of the traditional public school system if it works. Unfortunately, our chancellor thinks the solution is to open more charter schools.

Maybe the election will change that

[Anonymous]

Has anyone received a call that they got one of the 6 seats? If so, I hope you are in at the schools I want and I can bump up the waitlists by one!

[Anonymous]

bump

[Anonymous]

What does "bump" mean?