Where's Swami? We need a chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist thread

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Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

DCPS could easily make free pk income limited. They have not. So people who live IB for Hyde are just as entitled to free pk as everyone else.

They are, but they aren't entitled to complaining about it not being within two miles of their homes. I see 20+ schools with short or no WL for PK3

Exactly the point. PK programs should be centrally located or located in low-income neighborhoods - precisely because those with least among us are unlikely to have a shiny Lexus, an au pair for handling pick-up and drop-off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

Meridian is not in super high demand- we got in off a post-lottery application a few years ago. So they aren't exactly taking spots from people who need them more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

Not sure if you are the PP IB for Hyde but I am a NP and THANK YOU. The PP wasn't even really complaining- she just said she wanted the ones near her office and asked how likely it would be to get out. If PK were only offered to poorer kids then it would not be as useful for keeping people in DC. DC quite easily does a number of benefits based on income (for example the credit for daycare expenses goes away once you make $150k) so if the program was intended to primarily benefit lower income people then it would. Saying that she can't ask what her odds are of getting into a different school or be annoyed that PK at her in bounds went away is just unnecessary.

Signed, NP who paid over $50k in taxes last year to DC who has zero qualms about taking advantage of DCPS pre-k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

Not sure if you are the PP IB for Hyde but I am a NP and THANK YOU. The PP wasn't even really complaining- she just said she wanted the ones near her office and asked how likely it would be to get out. If PK were only offered to poorer kids then it would not be as useful for keeping people in DC. DC quite easily does a number of benefits based on income (for example the credit for daycare expenses goes away once you make $150k) so if the program was intended to primarily benefit lower income people then it would. Saying that she can't ask what her odds are of getting into a different school or be annoyed that PK at her in bounds went away is just unnecessary.

Signed, NP who paid over $50k in taxes last year to DC who has zero qualms about taking advantage of DCPS pre-k.

I am the H-A poster.

So again, back to my original question. What does Swami think the odds are for Thomson (#16) and Stevens (#60)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

Not sure if you are the PP IB for Hyde but I am a NP and THANK YOU. The PP wasn't even really complaining- she just said she wanted the ones near her office and asked how likely it would be to get out. If PK were only offered to poorer kids then it would not be as useful for keeping people in DC. DC quite easily does a number of benefits based on income (for example the credit for daycare expenses goes away once you make $150k) so if the program was intended to primarily benefit lower income people then it would. Saying that she can't ask what her odds are of getting into a different school or be annoyed that PK at her in bounds went away is just unnecessary.

Signed, NP who paid over $50k in taxes last year to DC who has zero qualms about taking advantage of DCPS pre-k.

I am the H-A poster.

So again, back to my original question. What does Swami think the odds are for Thomson (#16) and Stevens (#60)?

Y’all know about this tool, right? https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/viz/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

[Anonymous]

Y’all know about this tool, right? https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/v...erData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Yes, but waitlist rank on results day does not necessarily equate to number of waitlist offers made. What if a lot of siblings enroll and jump to the front of the waitlist? What if lots of people drop of the waitlist because they got in at preferred schools?

[Anonymous]

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Y’all know about this tool, right? https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/aaron2446/v...erData_draft/MSDCPublicDisplay

Yes, but waitlist rank on results day does not necessarily equate to number of waitlist offers made. What if a lot of siblings enroll and jump to the front of the waitlist? What if lots of people drop of the waitlist because they got in at preferred schools?

Well since swami has seemingly abandoned dcum, seems like the most useful predictive tool. Anyway, good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

Not sure if you are the PP IB for Hyde but I am a NP and THANK YOU. The PP wasn't even really complaining- she just said she wanted the ones near her office and asked how likely it would be to get out. If PK were only offered to poorer kids then it would not be as useful for keeping people in DC. DC quite easily does a number of benefits based on income (for example the credit for daycare expenses goes away once you make $150k) so if the program was intended to primarily benefit lower income people then it would. Saying that she can't ask what her odds are of getting into a different school or be annoyed that PK at her in bounds went away is just unnecessary.

Signed, NP who paid over $50k in taxes last year to DC who has zero qualms about taking advantage of DCPS pre-k.

I am the H-A poster.

So again, back to my original question. What does Swami think the odds are for Thomson (#16) and Stevens (#60)?

Oh man, you've got a shot at both. My guess is it'll be a long summer, and I would have a backup plan.

[Anonymous]

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I am the H-A poster.

So again, back to my original question. What does Swami think the odds are for Thomson (#16) and Stevens (#60)?

Many of the Georgetown and Foggy Bottom students who lost their in-boundary PK3 schools quickly snap up their waitlist offers at Stevens, but the waitlist at Thomson moves faster than in previous years. At first, you spend each morning with a long ride on the Circulator to Thomson, kid in tow, until you get tired of it and start driving there. You wonder about the wisdom of an indoor playground, but your kid thinks it's awesome. As you drive down L Street past Stevens, with a delivery truck blocking the single lane of through traffic, you reminisce about how much more pleasant downtown traffic used to be during the pandemic, and over the holidays you already are getting your PK4 lottery application ready for Hyde-Addison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am the H-A poster.

So again, back to my original question. What does Swami think the odds are for Thomson (#16) and Stevens (#60)?

Many of the Georgetown and Foggy Bottom students who lost their in-boundary PK3 schools quickly snap up their waitlist offers at Stevens, but the waitlist at Thomson moves faster than in previous years. At first, you spend each morning with a long ride on the Circulator to Thomson, kid in tow, until you get tired of it and start driving there. You wonder about the wisdom of an indoor playground, but your kid thinks it's awesome. As you drive down L Street past Stevens, with a delivery truck blocking the single lane of through traffic, you reminisce about how much more pleasant downtown traffic used to be during the pandemic, and over the holidays you already are getting your PK4 lottery application ready for Hyde-Addison.

So that’s two votes for H-A poster getting into Thomson.

[Anonymous]

#5 at Hardy for 6th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

This freaking board, I swear.

No one said you aren't entitled to universal PK in DC. But you are not entitled to universal PK at your IB school. No one is. You don't hear people whining about stuff like this in working class and poor neighborhoods in this city because people recognize that "free" pretty much never means "ideal, convenient, and exactly what you were expecting." Sorry not sorry. If you even knew people who lived in the parts of this city where it is hard to find a functional ES at all, you might realize how entitled you sound.

Oh, and the amount of taxes you pay has ZERO relevance to your entitlement to a public PK, the fact that you think so is indicative of how entitled you are. You could be a lifelong Washingtonian whose family had paid millions in taxes to the city and donated half your estate to DCPS and you would still be no more entitled to a convenient public PK than anyone else. If you want to swing your wallet around and see people jump, you are MORE than welcome go to private school or decamp for Virginia where taxes are lower but there's no universal PK. Best of luck to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

This freaking board, I swear.

No one said you aren't entitled to universal PK in DC. But you are not entitled to universal PK at your IB school. No one is. You don't hear people whining about stuff like this in working class and poor neighborhoods in this city because people recognize that "free" pretty much never means "ideal, convenient, and exactly what you were expecting." Sorry not sorry. If you even knew people who lived in the parts of this city where it is hard to find a functional ES at all, you might realize how entitled you sound.

Oh, and the amount of taxes you pay has ZERO relevance to your entitlement to a public PK, the fact that you think so is indicative of how entitled you are. You could be a lifelong Washingtonian whose family had paid millions in taxes to the city and donated half your estate to DCPS and you would still be no more entitled to a convenient public PK than anyone else. If you want to swing your wallet around and see people jump, you are MORE than welcome go to private school or decamp for Virginia where taxes are lower but there's no universal PK. Best of luck to you.

+1. You’re not entitled to anything just because you pay a lot of taxes. Being rich doesn’t mean you get a more convenient public PK location than the rest of us plebes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys.

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx!

This freaking board, I swear.

No one said you aren't entitled to universal PK in DC. But you are not entitled to universal PK at your IB school. No one is. You don't hear people whining about stuff like this in working class and poor neighborhoods in this city because people recognize that "free" pretty much never means "ideal, convenient, and exactly what you were expecting." Sorry not sorry. If you even knew people who lived in the parts of this city where it is hard to find a functional ES at all, you might realize how entitled you sound.

Oh, and the amount of taxes you pay has ZERO relevance to your entitlement to a public PK, the fact that you think so is indicative of how entitled you are. You could be a lifelong Washingtonian whose family had paid millions in taxes to the city and donated half your estate to DCPS and you would still be no more entitled to a convenient public PK than anyone else. If you want to swing your wallet around and see people jump, you are MORE than welcome go to private school or decamp for Virginia where taxes are lower but there's no universal PK. Best of luck to you.

Where in the PP did the H-A poster say she thought she was entitled to a PK3 spot at her in bounds school? Being frustrated with something is not the same as thinking you are entitled to something.