DC Bilingual Wait List prediction PK4

[Anonymous]

We were at 42, and now at 36. Last year, DCB made 46 wait list offers to PK4 by October. Do folks have a sense if this kind of movement can be anticipated for the coming school year, or did they add an extra PK4 class room last year? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Extra classroom laat year. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Why was an extra class added last year? That wasn't the class to absorb the kids already attending the charter school that closed was it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why was an extra class added last year? That wasn't the class to absorb the kids already attending the charter school that closed was it?

Didn’t they add a class to absorb many of the siblings of the kids they added?

[Anonymous]

Hmmm...yours moved 6 spots? Mine has only moved 5. Started out at 23 and now 18. I’m not going to hold my breath about it because they had 3 classes this year and the upcoming year they will only have two. Kindergarten will now have 3 classes. Unless a miracle happens where a huge amount of families decline or they happen to open another class it will be highly unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...yours moved 6 spots? Mine has only moved 5. Started out at 23 and now 18. I’m not going to hold my breath about it because they had 3 classes this year and the upcoming year they will only have two. Kindergarten will now have 3 classes. Unless a miracle happens where a huge amount of families decline or they happen to open another class it will be highly unlikely.

This might happen because of how the myschooldc waitlists work. If the child initially given #30 had DCB second on their list and ended up getting into MV which was first on their list, the child would drop off the waitlist so parents below 30 would move up one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why was an extra class added last year? That wasn't the class to absorb the kids already attending the charter school that closed was it?

Didn’t they add a class to absorb many of the siblings of the kids they added?

I think they added a class because those older kids already attending had siblings that they failed to enroll at PK3. Is this a thing with the demographic maybe? Like they didn’t want to do PK3, and then tried to enroll at PK4. Enough of them to create a whole new class to avoid denying all the sibs, who were unexpected. I guess that bubble class is now moving up. This is my understanding but I’m not 100%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why was an extra class added last year? That wasn't the class to absorb the kids already attending the charter school that closed was it?

Didn’t they add a class to absorb many of the siblings of the kids they added?

I think they added a class because those older kids already attending had siblings that they failed to enroll at PK3. Is this a thing with the demographic maybe? Like they didn’t want to do PK3, and then tried to enroll at PK4. Enough of them to create a whole new class to avoid denying all the sibs, who were unexpected. I guess that bubble class is now moving up. This is my understanding but I’m not 100%.

Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

DCB parent here. I'm not sure where the PP was going with the quip about demographics, but the PP is otherwise right. The PK4 class last year was added to accommodate siblings that weren't initially enrolled in PK3. It had nothing to do with the previous charter. I wouldn't count on that happening again this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

DCB parent here. I'm not sure where the PP was going with the quip about demographics, but the PP is otherwise right. The PK4 class last year was added to accommodate siblings that weren't initially enrolled in PK3. It had nothing to do with the previous charter. I wouldn't count on that happening again this year.

Sorry - not racist - just trying to figure out why a large portion of the students eligible wouldn't enroll at PK3, but instead at PK4. There is little to distinguish this school from any other school (which have not had this problem to my knowledge), except, demographics skew more Hispanic than other schools. (Or, perhaps it's income level in which case that is still demographic?)

It can just be factual.

There, I opened that can of worms. Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

DCB parent here. I'm not sure where the PP was going with the quip about demographics, but the PP is otherwise right. The PK4 class last year was added to accommodate siblings that weren't initially enrolled in PK3. It had nothing to do with the previous charter. I wouldn't count on that happening again this year.

Sorry - not racist - just trying to figure out why a large portion of the students eligible wouldn't enroll at PK3, but instead at PK4. There is little to distinguish this school from any other school (which have not had this problem to my knowledge), except, demographics skew more Hispanic than other schools. (Or, perhaps it's income level in which case that is still demographic?)

It can just be factual.

There, I opened that can of worms. Enjoy.

The timing of the takeover was a factor. We want schools to retain their students for a host of reasons. This seems like a good decision by DCB to make sure the families who didn't initially join them (they selected the school that closed) would decide to stick around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

DCB parent here. I'm not sure where the PP was going with the quip about demographics, but the PP is otherwise right. The PK4 class last year was added to accommodate siblings that weren't initially enrolled in PK3. It had nothing to do with the previous charter. I wouldn't count on that happening again this year.

Sorry - not racist - just trying to figure out why a large portion of the students eligible wouldn't enroll at PK3, but instead at PK4. There is little to distinguish this school from any other school (which have not had this problem to my knowledge), except, demographics skew more Hispanic than other schools. (Or, perhaps it's income level in which case that is still demographic?)

It can just be factual.

There, I opened that can of worms. Enjoy.

Was there room for them to enroll in preK3? Do you have specific knowledge of the demographics of this particular group of students? Do you know much in particular about the circumstances that made opening a new class feasible and desirable? Or do you want to simply suggest there is something wrong with how low income parents make decisions. (And, btw, most charter schools serve high needs populations ... if they don't, there's something fishy going on.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

DCB parent here. I'm not sure where the PP was going with the quip about demographics, but the PP is otherwise right. The PK4 class last year was added to accommodate siblings that weren't initially enrolled in PK3. It had nothing to do with the previous charter. I wouldn't count on that happening again this year.

Sorry - not racist - just trying to figure out why a large portion of the students eligible wouldn't enroll at PK3, but instead at PK4. There is little to distinguish this school from any other school (which have not had this problem to my knowledge), except, demographics skew more Hispanic than other schools. (Or, perhaps it's income level in which case that is still demographic?)

It can just be factual.

There, I opened that can of worms. Enjoy.

Was there room for them to enroll in preK3? Do you have specific knowledge of the demographics of this particular group of students? Do you know much in particular about the circumstances that made opening a new class feasible and desirable? Or do you want to simply suggest there is something wrong with how low income parents make decisions. (And, btw, most charter schools serve high needs populations ... if they don't, there's something fishy going on.)

I don't think there is anything wrong with skipping PK3! Geez. Or being not as well informed as one should have been about sibling entry preference and timing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like kind of a racist assumption PP. It’s due to the additional kids when the other charter closed. Will not happen again.

DCB parent here. I'm not sure where the PP was going with the quip about demographics, but the PP is otherwise right. The PK4 class last year was added to accommodate siblings that weren't initially enrolled in PK3. It had nothing to do with the previous charter. I wouldn't count on that happening again this year.

Sorry - not racist - just trying to figure out why a large portion of the students eligible wouldn't enroll at PK3, but instead at PK4. There is little to distinguish this school from any other school (which have not had this problem to my knowledge), except, demographics skew more Hispanic than other schools. (Or, perhaps it's income level in which case that is still demographic?)

It can just be factual.

There, I opened that can of worms. Enjoy.

Hilarious that you think just saying that it’s not racist makes a racist statement not racist.

[Anonymous]

Who said it was a large portion of eligible students that didn't enroll for pk3? From what I recall, the school went pretty deep (relatively speaking) into the wait-list for that grade last year. Makes me think they they just needed to accommodate a few of these kids.