LAMB Public Lottery

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[Post New]03/15/2018 14:59
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Pk4 went, I believe, to 10 last year. We were 20 and carried false hope for a while escpeciallly as we watched the Pk3 list progress into 70s or 80s. K barely moved - maybe 2?


K went to 2. All siblings.
[Post New]03/15/2018 15:14
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Anonymous
Anyone know where the list will be posted when it is? Will it be on their Facebook page? The News section of the website?
[Post New]03/15/2018 15:16
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Anyone know where the list will be posted when it is? Will it be on their Facebook page? The News section of the website?


usually on the lottery page of their website
[Post New]03/15/2018 16:22
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Anonymous
LAMB is calling parents whose children were selected (for PK3 at least). I just got a call!
[Post New]03/15/2018 16:25
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:LAMB is calling parents whose children were selected (for PK3 at least). I just got a call!


Same here!
[Post New]03/15/2018 16:28
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Anonymous
Congratulations! The school is not perfect, but we’re happy to be part of the school. Love the teachers.
[Post New]03/15/2018 17:19
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LAMB is calling parents whose children were selected (for PK3 at least). I just got a call!


Same here!


When you get a call from a number you don't recognize hoping it might be LAMB telling you got it, but instead it's just that recording of the "Hello...this is Heather from Account Services" scam.
[Post New]03/15/2018 18:57
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Anonymous
I know right? I didn't expect to get into LAMB, being outside the common lottery makes it a pretty tough nut to crack, but now that we didn't, I'm like "WHAT IF WE DON'T GET IN ANYWHERE?!" and I'm envisioning the moving truck coming to take us to MoCo. Irrational, I'm aware.
[Post New]03/15/2018 19:31
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Anonymous
Hi all, Martin Austermuhle here, the WAMU reporter that was at LAMB for the lottery drawing. I was actually there for my own kid — didn't get a spot — but then met a woman who got a seat in PK-3. Ended up doing a story about it:

https://wamu.org/story/18/03/15/school-lottery-d-c-parents-leave-childrens-futures-hand-fate/
[Post New]03/15/2018 19:32
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I know right? I didn't expect to get into LAMB, being outside the common lottery makes it a pretty tough nut to crack, but now that we didn't, I'm like "WHAT IF WE DON'T GET IN ANYWHERE?!" and I'm envisioning the moving truck coming to take us to MoCo. Irrational, I'm aware.


Ugh I know. Same here.
[Post New]03/15/2018 19:35
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Anonymous wrote:Hi all, Martin Austermuhle here, the WAMU reporter that was at LAMB for the lottery drawing. I was actually there for my own kid — didn't get a spot — but then met a woman who got a seat in PK-3. Ended up doing a story about it:

https://wamu.org/story/18/03/15/school-lottery-d-c-parents-leave-childrens-futures-hand-fate/


Thank you gonna read it now
[Post New]03/15/2018 19:45
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know right? I didn't expect to get into LAMB, being outside the common lottery makes it a pretty tough nut to crack, but now that we didn't, I'm like "WHAT IF WE DON'T GET IN ANYWHERE?!" and I'm envisioning the moving truck coming to take us to MoCo. Irrational, I'm aware.


Ugh I know. Same here.


Two more years until kindergarten "free" in MoCo.
[Post New]03/15/2018 19:49
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Hi all, Martin Austermuhle here, the WAMU reporter that was at LAMB for the lottery drawing. I was actually there for my own kid — didn't get a spot — but then met a woman who got a seat in PK-3. Ended up doing a story about it:

https://wamu.org/story/18/03/15/school-lottery-d-c-parents-leave-childrens-futures-hand-fate/


Martin, the Conor Williams quote and article was from 2014 before the common lottery, right?

[L]otteries don’t exist in a vacuum. If each one is neutral, a system of lotteries can still tilt in favor of families with sufficient resources and free time to get around town and apply to as many as possible. A student entered in ten charter school lotteries has a better chance at enrolling at one than a student entered in just one.

[Post New]03/15/2018 20:40
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Hi all, Martin Austermuhle here, the WAMU reporter that was at LAMB for the lottery drawing. I was actually there for my own kid — didn't get a spot — but then met a woman who got a seat in PK-3. Ended up doing a story about it:

https://wamu.org/story/18/03/15/school-lottery-d-c-parents-leave-childrens-futures-hand-fate/


Thanks Martin. I really enjoy your reporting. I think that DC has totally messed up its school system with the lottery. (Its not sour grape- my kids attend a HRCS.) I agree with both the proposal to give preference to nearby schools as well as at risk kids. The system as it stands is so inequitable, looking at demographics.
[Post New]03/16/2018 01:50
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Anonymous
I hope they put up these results tomorrow and don't keep us waiting any longer
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