What school would you have to get into to stop playing the lottery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are fortunate enough to have been matched with one of our top choices. We also might get off the waitlist at a school we ranked higher. I am very excited about the school where we matched and will be faced with a difficult decision if we get off the waitlist of the other school. I don't want to turn down a school that everyone would think I was crazy to turn down. However, I am envisioning my child at our matched school and getting very comfortable with that idea. I am worried that I will regret the decision and miss out on a chance for my child to attend the other highly sought after school.

I hoped this helped - lots of people not playing the lottery at schools other than YY and Lamb (I'm assuming that one of those is your holy grail charter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are fortunate enough to have been matched with one of our top choices. We also might get off the waitlist at a school we ranked higher. I am very excited about the school where we matched and will be faced with a difficult decision if we get off the waitlist of the other school. I don't want to turn down a school that everyone would think I was crazy to turn down. However, I am envisioning my child at our matched school and getting very comfortable with that idea. I am worried that I will regret the decision and miss out on a chance for my child to attend the other highly sought after school.

I hoped this helped - lots of people not playing the lottery at schools other than YY and Lamb (I'm assuming that one of those is your holy grail charter).

OP. Thank you everyone. I thought this question might spark a discussion. I think everyone is saying that the most important thing is the best fit for your child specifically, not necessarily the most popular option or the school with the longest waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We are fortunate enough to have been matched with one of our top choices. We also might get off the waitlist at a school we ranked higher. I am very excited about the school where we matched and will be faced with a difficult decision if we get off the waitlist of the other school. I don't want to turn down a school that everyone would think I was crazy to turn down. However, I am envisioning my child at our matched school and getting very comfortable with that idea. I am worried that I will regret the decision and miss out on a chance for my child to attend the other highly sought after school.

I hoped this helped - lots of people not playing the lottery at schools other than YY and Lamb (I'm assuming that one of those is your holy grail charter).

This thread is not going to help as you're just going to hear from all the HRCS and DCPS schools. She got in or is getting into 2 of the schools mentioned. OP, it's better to ask targeted questions you have for the schools. Best not in a X vs Y scenario but separate threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Deal feeder

This.

[Anonymous]

We got into MV and thought our relationship with the lottery was done forever. Unfortunately have had a negative experience, in particular with administration's handling of teaching challenges. Love the families and majority of teachers, but the downside is too great. A year in the life of a small child is too much to sacrifice, especially if there are long term consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got into MV and thought our relationship with the lottery was done forever. Unfortunately have had a negative experience, in particular with administration's handling of teaching challenges. Love the families and majority of teachers, but the downside is too great. A year in the life of a small child is too much to sacrifice, especially if there are long term consequences.

PP, what grade, if you don't mind me asking? We are hoping and likely to get in this year and I have seen a few posts like this.

[Anonymous]

SWS. We love everything we know about the school and it's basically feet from us.

[Anonymous]

LAMB

[Anonymous]

YY or LAMB for elementary. Latin or DCI for MS.

[Anonymous]

I am PP- if you were to get in to the PS3, PK4 grade levels I would not be concerned. Some holes in K and 1st, concerns about 2 and 4th grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got into MV and thought our relationship with the lottery was done forever. Unfortunately have had a negative experience, in particular with administration's handling of teaching challenges. Love the families and majority of teachers, but the downside is too great. A year in the life of a small child is too much to sacrifice, especially if there are long term consequences.

PP, what grade, if you don't mind me asking? We are hoping and likely to get in this year and I have seen a few posts like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am PP- if you were to get in to the PS3, PK4 grade levels I would not be concerned. Some holes in K and 1st, concerns about 2 and 4th grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got into MV and thought our relationship with the lottery was done forever. Unfortunately have had a negative experience, in particular with administration's handling of teaching challenges. Love the families and majority of teachers, but the downside is too great. A year in the life of a small child is too much to sacrifice, especially if there are long term consequences.

PP, what grade, if you don't mind me asking? We are hoping and likely to get in this year and I have seen a few posts like this.

Thanks PP, we're looking at 2nd (which may be too tough under the best of circumstances). Any other info would be welcome if you are willing!

[Anonymous]

CMI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am PP- if you were to get in to the PS3, PK4 grade levels I would not be concerned. Some holes in K and 1st, concerns about 2 and 4th grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got into MV and thought our relationship with the lottery was done forever. Unfortunately have had a negative experience, in particular with administration's handling of teaching challenges. Love the families and majority of teachers, but the downside is too great. A year in the life of a small child is too much to sacrifice, especially if there are long term consequences.

PP, what grade, if you don't mind me asking? We are hoping and likely to get in this year and I have seen a few posts like this.

Thanks PP, we're looking at 2nd (which may be too tough under the best of circumstances). Any other info would be welcome if you are willing!

I'm not the PP but am another MV parent. Theere were a couple classrooms where things were a bit rough at MV this year - in one class there was a teaching change over the winter that seems to have resolved it, but for a second grade class the problems didn't really seem to resolve as easily and it sounded like a nightmare. That said, it sounded to me like more of a series of bad luck vs incompetent administration. That said, if my kid was in that class, I would have been really disappointed. However, I have had friends in fancy suburban public schools and even privates who also had kids who had really bad years. But I think that the difference with a charter is that because the parent chose the school (and still has to justify the choice to others who think all city schools are horrible) it's easy to question that decision after a bad year -- even though kids have bad years everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Capital City. Got in at 2nd grade and will stay though middle then on to application high schools.