My oldest is at RCF and my youngest got a spot for K - what do you think about me?

[Anonymous]

So just wondering how you feel about parents who accept the sibling preference spots. So much animosity on here about the sibling link and its unfairness - do you think parents who are in that situation should reject the spot? Or do you not blame them for taking it? Or what?

[Anonymous]

Huh? Of course you should take the spot.

[Anonymous]

We didn't get into RCF (very high wait list number). I see a value in having kids from the same family attend school together. Eliminating the sibling link would allow for more families to benefit from the program, but it wouldn't allow for more children to benefit.

I wasn't aware of the animosity about the sibling link. Speaking for myself, I'm more worried about the fact that MCPS language education is stuck in the 1960s dark ages than I am about the admission parameters of a single program.

[Anonymous]

I think the resentment is about the rules themselves rather than the parents. Of course you should take the spot.

[Anonymous]

Your kid should have been in a lottery like every other kid this year. That's how I really feel.

[Anonymous]

I think you are lucky to have gotten in before the sibling link is removed. I'm not upset that you used the system that was there, but I hope the system is changed.

[Anonymous]

It's crazy to me that your kid is just given a seat because your older child won the lottery years ago. Makes no sense and is absurdly unfair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy to me that your kid is just given a seat because your older child won the lottery years ago. Makes no sense and is absurdly unfair.

What? So she should take her kids to 2 or more different schools every day? Try to be involved in 2 different communities because of a lottery? So glad I'm in private!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy to me that your kid is just given a seat because your older child won the lottery years ago. Makes no sense and is absurdly unfair.

What? So she should take her kids to 2 or more different schools every day? Try to be involved in 2 different communities because of a lottery? So glad I'm in private!!!!

many parents do this. I have one in a magnet, and another that is not. Parents have the option to NOT put their kids in different schools if it bothers them that much. But many parents would rather have this problem -- one kid in a magnet or immersion - than not.

Why did you click on this link if your kid is in private? Just lurking? I'll lurk in the private school forum and make snarky comments in there... like the topic about how the parents with money from some fancy private school got out of trouble, something about giving alcohol to minors. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Why does the immersion have a sibling link but not any of the choice magnets? Aren't those lottery based, too?

[Anonymous]

My first thought about you was:

"What's RCF?"

I live in Montgomery County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does the immersion have a sibling link but not any of the choice magnets? Aren't those lottery based, too?

I think they're merit-based though? So that wouldn't make sense. Or are there others that are truly just lottery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's crazy to me that your kid is just given a seat because your older child won the lottery years ago. Makes no sense and is absurdly unfair.

What? So she should take her kids to 2 or more different schools every day? Try to be involved in 2 different communities because of a lottery? So glad I'm in private!!!!

many parents do this. I have one in a magnet, and another that is not. Parents have the option to NOT put their kids in different schools if it bothers them that much. But many parents would rather have this problem -- one kid in a magnet or immersion - than not.

Why did you click on this link if your kid is in private? Just lurking? I'll lurk in the private school forum and make snarky comments in there... like the topic about how the parents with money from some fancy private school got out of trouble, something about giving alcohol to minors. Nice.

NP here. You sound really bitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does the immersion have a sibling link but not any of the choice magnets? Aren't those lottery based, too?

Which choice magnets? There was a family in our neighborhood who had all three of her boys at the aerospace technology magnet program at Parkland. I highly doubt that all three of them got in through a random lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you are lucky to have gotten in before the sibling link is removed. I'm not upset that you used the system that was there, but I hope the system is changed.

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