Ward 3 PK 4 options?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are just going to leave Hearst after a year, please don't apply. Of course, you have every right to apply and then leave, but please don't.

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There are many, many people around the city who would love to come to Hearst and commit to the school community through 5th grade. Please don't take a spot if you do not intend to stay.

She's not "taking" a spot. If she ends up leaving after one year, that slot will be released into the open pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Clearly you are within your rights to go to other schools. Have you even tried to think about it from the other perspective, though? Even for just a second, to try to get where others are coming from? To understand why they'd rather have families commit to the school long-term rather than have a sizable percentage of the PK class disappear after one year?

I understand your point, but the thing is that there is no "they". There is no seniority or hierarchy in a public school. "They" are just parents like everyone else. They don't have any more rights that the newcomers, and they don't get to choose or even have an opinion on who "they" would rather have join the school. It's simply not up to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Clearly you are within your rights to go to other schools. Have you even tried to think about it from the other perspective, though? Even for just a second, to try to get where others are coming from? To understand why they'd rather have families commit to the school long-term rather than have a sizable percentage of the PK class disappear after one year?

I understand your point, but the thing is that there is no "they". There is no seniority or hierarchy in a public school. "They" are just parents like everyone else. They don't have any more rights that the newcomers, and they don't get to choose or even have an opinion on who "they" would rather have join the school. It's simply not up to them.

NP here. I don't think you understand their point at all. The person clearly agreed about it not changing rights, and we're all entitled to hold our own opinions.

Take this for example: As an IB parent at a rising school, you meet two OOB parents. One is IB at a school WOTP but didn't get in there for PK, and is clearly leaving ASAP. The other is IB for a somewhat worse off school and is interested in sticking with this other school all the way through.
Who do you think the IB parent spends more time getting to know? "They" get to have whatever opinion they want - it simply is up to them. "They" don't get to change anyone's right - that is simply not up to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just food for thought under how the lottery works now. In order to get into Hearst OOB you have to have a very good lottery draw. If you get that good of a lottery draw, chances are that you will be one of the few IB without sibling preference families that make it into Janney pre-k where your odds are much better than in the general lottery pool.

All this angst is likely about nothing.

+100... and on the flipside, you draw a bad lottery number and you're basically shut out of any school, since you'll be at the back of every waitlist (but hey, this new common lottery system is just so fair in that sense)...