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Anonymous
| Rumor has it that calls will be made on monday for both acceptances and rejections. Has anyone ever been rejected from Green Acres for K? |
Anonymous
Yes. |
Anonymous
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You are unlikely to be rejected if they like you. Now, that is the big question, did you or your child do something to piss them off?
Funny, my take on that school is that THEY are the intolerant ones. |
Anonymous
| Where did the rumor come from? I thought they would be March 5. |
Anonymous
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Oh my goodness, 9:07
Green Acres is a progressive school and if a child won't be happy and successful in that environment, I would HOPE that the AD wouldn't accept them into a place where they might be miserable. Or the parents would be frustrated or unsatisfied. |
Anonymous
| I'm sure they can't accept everyone they like, either... |
Anonymous
Yes, but how do they figure all this out in a 20 minute interview? |
Anonymous
| It was a much longer interview than that -- parent interview was about an hour. They did ask upfront what we knew about the progressive approach and how it fit in with our approach. All good questions, I think. |
Anonymous
| In addition to the parent interview which was about 45 mins, there was a full day visit for my child, plus a half day assessment for applicants. I feel like they took the most time to know us of any school we applied to. |
Anonymous
Or, especially, a playdate for 4 year olds. We were rejected, as far as I can tell, on the basis of a bad play date (I thought my child had successfully separated, but I found out later she wasn't ready to engage with a bunch of people she didn't know and didn't behave well). Of course I could be wrong, and the real reason is they didn't like us, or her preschool teachers said something in the recommendation letter that they didn't like. I still wonder occasionally whether it was a good or a bad thing we didn't end up there, but I am pretty certain that the behavior they saw in that playdate was not behavior that is typical of my child in school. |
Anonymous
| PP, where did your daughter end up? |
Anonymous
I feel the same way. In our case, it is hard to tell what it was. They have since had trouble filling the preK and K classes, and I wonder if the regret some of the rejections they served. I wish the admissions staff were just a bit more professional. I found them to be kind of doing detective work to see if you would be a "good" family. I am very happy with our current school, and glad that we are not there. |
Anonymous
Our local MoCo public school. For us it wasn't "which private to go to" but "should we go private" (for reasons both philosophic and financial). I was a little naive I guess, but I was actually surprised at the playdate when I realized that most of the other kids had been doing this every weekend for different schools. I have liked our public school much more than I expected and I think it is doing a great job (but still it's one (or one and half) teacher(s) for 20+, not 4 for 36, in K, and kindergarteners have homework, at least in theory, etc.). On the other hand, I do like that when we go sledding we know the families on the hill from school, and we can continue to save for retirement and travel. |
Anonymous
| Last year, Green Acres called us ahead of time before the letter arrived in the mail. |
Anonymous
| Why would they call people who they are rejecting? |