waitlist on all 12 choices??how so??
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Anonymous
Please. Do you give that speech to the people that are already at their top spot from last year or a tier 1 non-language charter and are applying this year. I see it every year when kids leave from our HRCS for language schools. With your logic, only about 20% of the kids PK4 and up should be playing the lottery. |
Anonymous
So move to a condo? Otherwise what are you going to do? |
Anonymous
How can you not get into K? what's your IB? |
Anonymous
FWIW there has been discussion of only allowing people to enter lottery every other year, to reduce the number of people moving around (still could move to your IB though). Do you think that would help? |
Anonymous
Don’t worry about me. I’ll figure out something. But if you think most people in this city can afford private easily you are truly out of touch. |
Anonymous
This is so myopic and overdramatic. And I say that as someone who sent a child to Appletree for a year. We and the other parents in that classroom invested (such a dumb word for parenting your chidlren) just as much for the year we were there as we have in the school that has become our long-term solution. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I meant my K didn't get into any of our 12 picks using the lottery (mostly bilingual schools since I'm Latina). We do have Eaton as in boundary so that's where she's going to go... |
Anonymous
I mean you're making a lot of assumptions about me, but okay. Most of the EOTP families I know could afford to move WOTP but don't because they think it's too sleepy over here. Annoying to then listen to them complain about the lottery. |
Anonymous
What is your IB school? |
Anonymous
That PP is at a WOTP without Pk3. |
Anonymous
Boo hoo. That means you have an excellent choice guaranteed on k, and possible in PK4. |
Anonymous
I made no assumptions about you. The made an if/then statement based in fact. |
Anonymous
As someone who theoretically could afford something in WOTP but chose EOTP for many personal, professional, and financial reasons, I think this is a bit unfair. Perhaps many people here in the DCUM are too entitled, including my spouse and me, in our hope that lottery works out because we're concerned about the IB. But we tried to be smart, and included schools other than the most popular and are very happy we got into a school we like yet that was realistic. Ultimately, people are complaining because demand has for exceeded supply in terms of schools parents are comfortable with. Whether you fault the system or the parents for not trusting neighborhood schools is kind of irrelevant -- fact is many do not, and many look desperately to the lottery to achieve the balances they want in their life, whatever they may be. The lottery understandably causes a lot of stress for everyone, and I think we all should be a bit more understanding. That said, I think OP's complaints here come off as particularly entitled. OP included only popular schools, no safeties, and is surprised about striking out. Further, as others remarked, OP is fine for the long-term -- it was just about free pre-k. Sure, it would be great that there truly was universal, wonderful PK3-12 in D.C., all walking difference from everyone's home. But that just isn't the case, and so folks should try to edit themselves from whining when, overall, they're in good shape when others face bigger challenges (whether that is sending their kid to a school they're worried about, feeling like they have to move from a neighborhood they love, and so on). |
Anonymous
I would also guess you get into center city for the first one, then your second child will get re-ranked because they will have sibling preference (I think) |
Anonymous
+1. OP, don't listen to this argument, which pops up again and again on this board. It's extremely hypocritical in the face of the fact that most parents EOTP also play the lottery over and over until they have gotten into one of the really popular schools. They all create "instability" in the exact same way. You have just as much right to lottery for free PK as anyone else in the city, regardless of where you live. |