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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, this is the rule, and you’re stuck, OP. Agree it’s time to start looking through the short waitlists for PK3 and applying everywhere. Any chance of getting in at the new school for PK3?

I will say - I think this is a dumb rule. Once you’re enrolled, you should get to stay unless there’s actual fraud (ie, putting down a sibling that doesn’t exist or trying to pass a neighbor off as a sibling or something). I mean, plenty of people have a PK3 get in on sibling preference and then a couple years later, older sib leaves for BASIS after 4th - should little sib be kicked out then too??

Plus - assuming school A was first on your lotto list for PK3, if you didn’t have sibling preference she might have matched with your 2nd or 3rd choice school, and now they might be full. You can’t unring a bell! [/quote]

The problem is that there are other families on that waitlist for School A who, like OP, do not have a sibling enrolled at the school. Why should OP's child jump the line ahead of them? That's what happened.

I am sympathetic to OP's situation but I also think it was something she could and should have anticipated, knowing she was relying on sibling preference to help her younger child get into School A but also might move the older child to a new school. It could have been prevented by either not attempting to move the older child this year, trying to get them both into the same school, or simply listing more back ups for the younger child for PK in case this exact scenario happened.

Also, her younger child may yet get a spot at School A. She's #4 on the waitlist and has IB preference. That's not a terrible position to be in in May, with plenty of waitlist movement to come. So this may all work out. But it will work out in a fair way that doesn't allow her younger child to take advantage of sibling preference to get a spot when they don't even have a sibling at the school.[/quote]

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