How to let people know you are leaving your school?

[Anonymous]

I know there's a waitlist space for most people-- but how do you let people know you are leaving your charter/DCPS in a polite way? Just let the word spread or ghost? Are the rules different if you are a fairly involved family?

[Anonymous]

Why do you need to tell? Just let your friends know but no need to announce it. There have been countless posts about this over the years. You can do a search.

[Anonymous]

Full page ad in the Post and an airplane towing a banner on the last day of school.

[Anonymous]

We were also a very involved family, and posed the same question before we left. We told close friends around this time last year, after we found our Ker told classmates (apparently they were having a conversation about who was staying/going next year). We also had to transition a couple of volunteer things we headed up, so we told key people. Otherwise, we just let the word spread.

[Anonymous]

There's always the Joe Weedon approach....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were also a very involved family, and posed the same question before we left. We told close friends around this time last year, after we found our Ker told classmates (apparently they were having a conversation about who was staying/going next year). We also had to transition a couple of volunteer things we headed up, so we told key people. Otherwise, we just let the word spread.

P.S. The primary response I got from everyone here was “no one cares.” I actually found that this wasn’t true in our particular case given that our old school had a very strong community and we’d been there for a while. YMMV.

[Anonymous]

People at my private veeeeery much care who leaves. So much so that you don’t have to tell too many people for everyone to know lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Full page ad in the Post and an airplane towing a banner on the last day of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People at my private veeeeery much care who leaves. So much so that you don’t have to tell too many people for everyone to know lol.

And then they celebrate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full page ad in the Post and an airplane towing a banner on the last day of school.

But what about the aftercare families?

(Also, for those of you in 500+ kid schools, when you are in 100+ schools, people notice_

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People at my private veeeeery much care who leaves. So much so that you don’t have to tell too many people for everyone to know lol.

And then they celebrate.

One family, yes. Another, no.

[Anonymous]

Do the parents have a FB page or something else like that? In our school, usually parents leave a note saying - Sad to say we are going to leave this year for xyz reason. Loved being part of the community, will miss you all blah blah blah.
You don't have to mention the reason but then people will ask. Also, good opportunity to let everyone know that you are open for playdates etc, if you are interested in continuing relationship with some friends.

[Anonymous]

I told my close friends and the PTO people. It sucked.

[Anonymous]

We just told people as it naturally came up. We found that some do care and are actually miffed. I think it's a combo of sad to lose families/parents they're close with, sad for their kids to lose friends at the school, and defensive that others aren't making the same choices for their kids. The first two are the reasons they give, but I strongly suspect that the latter is sometimes a factor as well.

[Anonymous]

I'd tell families I'm close too, but letting the school know, they will find out in due time.

Most who leave our EOTP school live in the neighborhood and we end up running into those families at the park etc.