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[quote=Anonymous]I think you have a very good chance of making it off the list. FWIW I agree with other posters who have said that switching into the school year for K is a non-issue. I can tell you from experience that TR is adept at making kids feel welcome and helping them to adapt into the community. If you would take the spot in July then IMHO you'd be silly not to accept it in September.

Last year's WL was a bit of an outlier for all of DCPS/PCSB, but especially for TR. I don't want to derail this and lots has been written about it on DCUM, but regardless of whether you think kids should have returned to in person learning TR did a piss poor job of communicating, setting expectations and then executing on what they said they were going to do. As a consequence I think the reputation of the school and confidence in the Exec leadership was shaken and that may have trickled down to word of mouth and impacted yield rates on waitlist offers. It remains to be seen whether that reputational harm will persist, although as someone who loves the school and was fortunate to get in very early on I worry that noticeably shorter waitlist this year is a leading indicator that they have more restorative work to do.

I also understand what you mean by it being a neighborhood school. Many grades feel very much that way (although we were a bit unlucky and our kid's year was not that way - jealous). TR has been great for us. I would not hesitate to take the spot if offered. [/quote]

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