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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a good (&lt;5) waitlist number at our inbound PK (no sibling), but have been bumped down several spots by kids with older siblings at the school entering the lottery in the post-lottery period and jumping to the top of the waitlist.  In other words, their parents missed the lottery deadline.  I'm curious about whether there has been any discussion of whether this is fair?  I understand that this is how it works, but I'm just throwing this out there to see if others have thought through the reasons it works that way (as opposed to an approach where if you miss the deadline you are at the bottom of the list).[/quote]

It is not necessarily parents missing the lottery.  I played the lottery, for example, but did not invoke sibling preference, as we were not sure that our oldest would attend the same school as we wanted for our youngest.  Now that we have decided, we added the preference.  We were entitled to it in the first place, and would have taken a spot with a double preference (in bound plus sibling enrolled) vs merely wait listed with a single preference (inbound).  I don't really see it as "unfair" to add a preference that we were always entitled to.[/quote]

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