Shut out and really angry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

This may be the single stupidest reaction to the lottery that I have read.

This. It's so silly, it's hard to stop laughing. How absurd!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

Ah hahahahaha! And that will help how? Because republicans care so deeply about public education? Or because you just want to pay less in taxes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have lived in this city for 30 of my 36 years and my parents for a long time before that and we were shut out of every pk3 program we applied for. The shock has now turned to anger. I'm so disgusted with this process.it just burns me up that someone can just move into my neighborhood on a whim, work in VA or MD while I work for the city, and shut my DC out while I keep paying taxes for their DC to go to FREE pk. I'm so burned up over this.

I just had to get that off my chest.

A few questions:
1. Last year my understanding was that only a few in-boundary families got turned away from the in-boundary school. However, this year our waitlist number is enormous! How are there so many (30+) new children at my in-boundary school?
2. Does DCPS release a list of addresses in order of lottery number for a given school?
3. How do we track waitlist movement at a given school?

You are rightly pissed off. I can't tell you the number of MD plates drop off kids at EL Haynes everyday as I'm driving by on my way to work. There are so many ways for people to cheat the system. I was told by 3 people that they rented basement apartments in upper NW to get their kids into Murch b/c they were in-bounds and then let the leases go as soon as they were enrolled. Others use their friends' addresses.

[Anonymous]

Yes, even if there is a long wait list for Round 1, certain charters are worth round 2 because they go through their wait lists. It's not about your number so much as the rates of acceptance in the shuffle. So being 150 or 200 could easily eventually get you in at Appletree or Bridges but being number 2 at Oyster for PK may mean you don't get in. do your research and pick those schools.

-parent who got offered 2 slots from round 2 last year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

This may be the single stupidest reaction to the lottery that I have read.

This. It's so silly, it's hard to stop laughing. How absurd!

NP. It's not absurd at all. I voted for Catania. If you didn't, then you're the silly one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have lived in this city for 30 of my 36 years and my parents for a long time before that and we were shut out of every pk3 program we applied for. The shock has now turned to anger. I'm so disgusted with this process.it just burns me up that someone can just move into my neighborhood on a whim, work in VA or MD while I work for the city, and shut my DC out while I keep paying taxes for their DC to go to FREE pk. I'm so burned up over this.

I just had to get that off my chest.

A few questions:
1. Last year my understanding was that only a few in-boundary families got turned away from the in-boundary school. However, this year our waitlist number is enormous! How are there so many (30+) new children at my in-boundary school?
2. Does DCPS release a list of addresses in order of lottery number for a given school?
3. How do we track waitlist movement at a given school?

You are rightly pissed off. I can't tell you the number of MD plates drop off kids at EL Haynes everyday as I'm driving by on my way to work. There are so many ways for people to cheat the system. I was told by 3 people that they rented basement apartments in upper NW to get their kids into Murch b/c they were in-bounds and then let the leases go as soon as they were enrolled. Others use their friends' addresses.

I believe this; I walk or bike past the playground pickup at Murch 4 days a week, both on 36th and on Ellicott. It has occurred to me that the Principal(s), feeling the strong tug of his/her bleeding heart liberalism, has used his/her discretion to allow the 6-monthers to stay for 6 years. The current OOB official percentage on the dcps school profile page doesn't match up to what I see with my own eyes during dog walks and runs past the pickup spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

Sounds like poor reading skills by you to me.

It sounds to me like this PP struck out 4 times so had to move to ensure a good educational option for her child. That is what you have to do to take care of the child you are responsible for and has nothing to do with complaints about taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

This may be the single stupidest reaction to the lottery that I have read.

This. It's so silly, it's hard to stop laughing. How absurd!

NP. It's not absurd at all. I voted for Catania. If you didn't, then you're the silly one.

And Catania is mayor now... not! Again, stop with foolishness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

This may be the single stupidest reaction to the lottery that I have read.

This. It's so silly, it's hard to stop laughing. How absurd!

NP. It's not absurd at all. I voted for Catania. If you didn't, then you're the silly one.

And Catania is mayor now... not! Again, stop with foolishness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

This may be the single stupidest reaction to the lottery that I have read.

This. It's so silly, it's hard to stop laughing. How absurd!

NP. It's not absurd at all. I voted for Catania. If you didn't, then you're the silly one.

And Catania is mayor now... not! Again, stop with foolishness.

One post is enough. My point was, Catania was clearly the better candidate. If you want to continue voting for mediocre people simply because they carry the dem endorsement, then you'll get the poor local govt you deserve. Don't mistake me; I have never voted republican for any federal office, anywhere I've lived. But partisan democratic politics in DC continues to hurt the city.

[Anonymous]

^no, you're just a nimby. Sloppy dem policies affected you directly, so now you want the repubs to save you. Pathetic. I'm just glad you people are getting what you asked for.

[Anonymous]

LMAO at OP and 30 year residency preference.

You shouldn't have moved away for six years. People with 35+ years get the extra special VIP treatment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, OP, cry me a river. We all pay taxes here. We just got shut out for the 4th straight year. Now we will move to escape our terrible inbounds school, because we have run out of options and time.

It sounds like you got tired of paying taxes for some other family's kids to go to your neighborhood preschool. Am I wrong?

+1. I can understand OP's frustration. Which is why, for the first time, my spouse and I will consider voting for a middle-ground Republican candidate next time.

This may be the single stupidest reaction to the lottery that I have read.

This. It's so silly, it's hard to stop laughing. How absurd!

NP. It's not absurd at all. I voted for Catania. If you didn't, then you're the silly one.

And Catania is mayor now... not! Again, stop with foolishness.

One post is enough. My point was, Catania was clearly the better candidate. If you want to continue voting for mediocre people simply because they carry the dem endorsement, then you'll get the poor local govt you deserve. Don't mistake me; I have never voted republican for any federal office, anywhere I've lived. But partisan democratic politics in DC continues to hurt the city.

+1, especially if education was a concern since it was perfectly clear that bowser has not a clue about it... although he's not a republican anymore anyways...

[Anonymous]

Just glad liberals are getting pinched. You guys want a social experiment to affect your kids and your families- you got it! I'm just glad my kids got their seats at bomb charters. There my precious snowflakes and I put them in front of everybody and don't apologize for it either.

[Anonymous]

You are rightly pissed off. I can't tell you the number of MD plates drop off kids at EL Haynes everyday as I'm driving by on my way to work. There are so many ways for people to cheat the system. I was told by 3 people that they rented basement apartments in upper NW to get their kids into Murch b/c they were in-bounds and then let the leases go as soon as they were enrolled. Others use their friends' addresses.

I believe this; I walk or bike past the playground pickup at Murch 4 days a week, both on 36th and on Ellicott. It has occurred to me that the Principal(s), feeling the strong tug of his/her bleeding heart liberalism, has used his/her discretion to allow the 6-monthers to stay for 6 years. The current OOB official percentage on the dcps school profile page doesn't match up to what I see with my own eyes during dog walks and runs past the pickup spots.

So you go past the school but never go in or have any other connection to the school? Do you know any neighborhood families whose children attend the school? If so, have you asked them about this? If you did, you might find out that a few kids have divorced parents and sometimes the parent who lives in Maryland picks them up from school, or that their babysitter who lives in Virginia (or their grandmother or great aunt who lives in Maryland) picks them up. I know kids at this school for whom these things are true.

I am not saying that residency cheaters don't exist at the school. But your occasional drive-by observations are not strong evidence. There are plenty of legitimate reasons for non-DC plates at pick up. It is much more likely that residency cheaters would live in DC in another neighborhood and that is, of course, not going to be obvious because they have DC plates.

You could at least find out if the principal is male or female before casting your uninformed aspersions.