June waitlist data is up!

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Anonymous wrote:Latin and BASIS had record WL and are pulling fewer kids off of WL as of June. Demand up, yield up.

Stuart Hobson made 3 offers. THREE!

Seems like quality MS seats are even harder to come by.

We have a kid at BASIS and our second is in the 50s on the waitlist. It's wild this year.

For 5th grade, BASIS matched 43 with "sibling attending" preference and 96 with no preference on match day. This doesn't make sense.

+1. Are you sure you entered your child's lottery info correctly? Sibling should get in easily at BASIS.

Maybe op is wait listed for 6th grade?

No chance there are that many WL subs in 6th.

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Anonymous wrote:Just got a PK3 waitlist offer for Mundo Verde JF Cook. We were #58 on the waitlist on match day. Any ideas why Cook campus is churning through so many people?

Truxton circle traffic and atmosphere.
Campus has had a rough few years with leadership, teacher turnover, and parents unhappy with academic offerings.

Can you elaborate about leadership, turnover, and whether parent upset is valid? Wasn’t expecting a waitlist offer so feel very unprepared to make a decision. Is going this deep into waitlist a big red flag?

I would talk to actual parents at the school. DCUMD hates MV and a lot of people commenting don’t have kids there. I am not there but know a few families that are overall happy. The neighborhood is a prime complaint.

DCUM doesn’t have a problem with MV. Just the boosters that will put down other charters and insist it is common knowledge that MV has the best Spanish instruction with zero data to support the claim.

I don’t really see any “booster” posts. Just parents with kids at MV commenting on their experiences and then someone (probably the same poster from the tone) immediately dismissing these experiences. I’ve noticed significantly more MV hate on DCUMD posts than Mv boosters. And you clearly don’t have a kid at the school so what’s the deal. I don’t have a kid at MV so I personally wouldn’t comment on the school.

"Booster" is the term used for anyone who says anything nice about their school. DCUM logic holds that people without kids at a school have the right to cr*p all over a school based on what their neighbor said. And if you had a kid at the school (even 5 years ago) your criticisms and impressions are valid. The only people whose opinions and perspectives are to be discounted are those actually at the school who have nice things to say. Clearly they cannot be trusted!

DCUM is basically Mean Girls.

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I think the issue is that the experience at a lot of these schools is very inconsistent. So a family that got very lucky or unlucky sounds like a booster or hater, but likely they are both relaying their own actual experiences. I have two kids at a popular charter and my rising second grader is having a fundamentally different experience than my fourth grader, just based on the teachers they had and the school's ability to manage the kids in the different cohorts. After five years at the school I couldn't say whether it's "good" or not. It's been both good and bad, but so radically different that it's impossible to generalize.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is that the experience at a lot of these schools is very inconsistent. So a family that got very lucky or unlucky sounds like a booster or hater, but likely they are both relaying their own actual experiences. I have two kids at a popular charter and my rising second grader is having a fundamentally different experience than my fourth grader, just based on the teachers they had and the school's ability to manage the kids in the different cohorts. After five years at the school I couldn't say whether it's "good" or not. It's been both good and bad, but so radically different that it's impossible to generalize.

This is real. We are leaving our school (Title 1 DCPS) this year after a pretty bad 2nd grade experience, but know many families who are staying and can't believe we're leaving. We just have different kids who are having different experiences. We have a non-sporty kid who is super shy and easily embarrassed, and the school's culture is honestly painful for him. Most of the other families we now have more sporty, outgoing kids. I was feeling unsure about our decision because there are so many things we do like about the school, but then went to the end of year assembly and it just confirmed for me that it's not a great environment for my kid. But that's really not a judgment on the school. We visited a ton of schools before entering the lottery and are headed to a charter that is about half the size, with a much quieter vibe and less emphasis on sports, and I think it's going to be a great fit.

One school is not better than the other in general, but we think one of them is better for our specific kid.