Twins in the LAMB Lottery (2015-2016 PK3)

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:+2. They have never hosted a kindergarten fair. They used to hold a very useful school choice forum (where parents told about their experience picking schools) before the lottery closed. They didn't this year -- I don't know why. The last forum I went to the parents were equally split between publics and charters, with no private representation that I can remember.

I wonder if they stopped out of concern that the BTDT parents' info is rapidly becoming out of date. Someone mentioned that in last year's forum, many parents stated that they found that their initial school pick was not right for their child or the commute was difficult, so they lotteried in to some other HRCS. I wonder if there is a perception that getting a lottery spot later is becoming a less viable option.

Been a member of the DC twins list serve for many years -- it's just a yahoo list serve! Seriously! The sparse postings are typically about selling or giving away stuff, feeding and sleeping advise/commiseration, and things like asking about how come everyone asks if your boy/girl twins are identical My understanding is the parents who were nice enough to organize a basic informational school forum (and also who used to organize a Halloween costume party & clothes swap) have "aged out" of doing it as their children got older & no one else has picked up the baton to keep it going as of now.

+1. The poster who suspects a conspiracy of any sort is seriously paranoid. This is the only DC parents of multiples group, since DC unfortunately doesn't have a formal club. It has nothing to do with either Mt. Pleasant or schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You belong in a rubber room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mom of twins -- we're still *behind* regular older sibling preference in the lottery!! And it's not like you are entering your child twice.

+ 1. Two-thirds of our JKLM pre-key classes were taken by kids with older siblings already in the school.

[Anonymous]

Conspiracy? Really? Wish I had been so calculating when I helped found the group almost 10 years ago. The most
Organized we've gotten is an annual Halloween party, the school choice forum and helping to start the coop play at Girard Street. a previous post is right about no forum this year. There are so many more sources of information available about school choice than there was 10 years ago. Some are on our second schools and many still in DC at a charter or another DCPS.

[Anonymous]

So how does it work for twins in the lottery? You enter each kid, and if one wins the other gets in, too? (I'm asking as a parent of twins, not in school yet.)

[Anonymous]

Re twins -- According to My School DC FAQ's this is not consistent across all schools. Seems some cover twins with the sibling enrolled/accepted preferences. And offer specific twins preference. Says to call school in question to verify. http://www.myschooldc.org/faq/faqs/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how does it work for twins in the lottery? You enter each kid, and if one wins the other gets in, too? (I'm asking as a parent of twins, not in school yet.)

You enter the lottery same as anyone. If one twin gets in, the other moves up to the top of the waiting list - and then you are just in the position of being at the top of the wait list (which means you are likely to get in but there have been rare cases where one kid goes to one school & the other doesn't). If both twins are on the wait list & one ends up moving off the wait list & gets in, then the other goes to the top of the remaining wait list. We were in the scenario where one twin got into a pre-k 4 in the first round, other twin ended up on the top of the wait list & we had to wait & check in with the school after the first enrollment period & the wait list was starting to be tapped (for our school, that was beginning of June).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how does it work for twins in the lottery? You enter each kid, and if one wins the other gets in, too? (I'm asking as a parent of twins, not in school yet.)

You enter the lottery same as anyone. If one twin gets in, the other moves up to the top of the waiting list - and then you are just in the position of being at the top of the wait list (which means you are likely to get in but there have been rare cases where one kid goes to one school & the other doesn't). If both twins are on the wait list & one ends up moving off the wait list & gets in, then the other goes to the top of the remaining wait list. We were in the scenario where one twin got into a pre-k 4 in the first round, other twin ended up on the top of the wait list & we had to wait & check in with the school after the first enrollment period & the wait list was starting to be tapped (for our school, that was beginning of June).

PP here - that is what we were told was standard policy for DCPS. I think charters may be able to set different rules - you can call any given school and ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how does it work for twins in the lottery? You enter each kid, and if one wins the other gets in, too? (I'm asking as a parent of twins, not in school yet.)

You enter the lottery same as anyone. If one twin gets in, the other moves up to the top of the waiting list - and then you are just in the position of being at the top of the wait list (which means you are likely to get in but there have been rare cases where one kid goes to one school & the other doesn't). If both twins are on the wait list & one ends up moving off the wait list & gets in, then the other goes to the top of the remaining wait list. We were in the scenario where one twin got into a pre-k 4 in the first round, other twin ended up on the top of the wait list & we had to wait & check in with the school after the first enrollment period & the wait list was starting to be tapped (for our school, that was beginning of June).

PP here - that is what we were told was standard policy for DCPS. I think charters may be able to set different rules - you can call any given school and ask.

At LAMB if one twin gets admitted the second twin automatically gets a place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how does it work for twins in the lottery? You enter each kid, and if one wins the other gets in, too? (I'm asking as a parent of twins, not in school yet.)

You enter the lottery same as anyone. If one twin gets in, the other moves up to the top of the waiting list - and then you are just in the position of being at the top of the wait list (which means you are likely to get in but there have been rare cases where one kid goes to one school & the other doesn't). If both twins are on the wait list & one ends up moving off the wait list & gets in, then the other goes to the top of the remaining wait list. We were in the scenario where one twin got into a pre-k 4 in the first round, other twin ended up on the top of the wait list & we had to wait & check in with the school after the first enrollment period & the wait list was starting to be tapped (for our school, that was beginning of June).

PP here - that is what we were told was standard policy for DCPS. I think charters may be able to set different rules - you can call any given school and ask.

Thank you both for that information!

[Anonymous]

Another DC twins founder here. I only wish we had started a conspiracy years ago. Unfortunately, we were all too befuddled to be that organized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how does it work for twins in the lottery? You enter each kid, and if one wins the other gets in, too? (I'm asking as a parent of twins, not in school yet.)

You enter the lottery same as anyone. If one twin gets in, the other moves up to the top of the waiting list - and then you are just in the position of being at the top of the wait list (which means you are likely to get in but there have been rare cases where one kid goes to one school & the other doesn't). If both twins are on the wait list & one ends up moving off the wait list & gets in, then the other goes to the top of the remaining wait list. We were in the scenario where one twin got into a pre-k 4 in the first round, other twin ended up on the top of the wait list & we had to wait & check in with the school after the first enrollment period & the wait list was starting to be tapped (for our school, that was beginning of June).

A quick clarification -- you don't necessarily move to the top of the wait list. There is a separate section of the wait list for siblings of admitted students, which is ahead of the regular wait list. You move to the bottom of that list.