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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was the charter parent who proposed the startover lottery at K. Let me reiterate that I am IN the system at a desirable charter school, so this is not a selfish proposal on my part. I agree strongly with the "stressed" poster (who I think had a reasonable reaction to the turn that the thread was taking) that there should be options that:

1) provide PS3 and PS4 for low-income and working families
2) AND provide a reasonable entry point for K families

I never suggested that we screw over "working class families who need PS and PK. What I suggested was that we provide a reasonable entry point for K families that don't require people to force their kids in at 3. A K lottery would mean that the big "do or die" year for the lottery would be K instead of PS3 and PS4. What would be the big deal about that? Everyone could send their kid to Appletree or their local Ludlow-Taylor or Miner or whatever works for them in PS3 and PK4, and then start the lottery for their "forever" schools at K.

This would eliminate the crush at PS3 since there seem to be more than a few of us who'd like to keep their kids home that year and push the lottery to K, which is already a year in which there is a ton of movement as families leave the city for the suburbs, move their kids to private schools, or leave their daycare for their inbounds schools.

The only people who would be "losers" in this group, would be people like me, whose kids already lotteried into a coveted charter or OOB school. I think we all agree that this is small group.

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I don't think this would work unless the schools radically changed their programs.  Most of the charters, especially the immersion, want continuity in students so that the students will embrace and understand the learning style used by the school.  I imagine LAMB would not want to provide two years of Montessori then give up those kids and start over with fresh kids with no Montessori experience at K.  This would be especially problematic for immersion schools.  Maybe if each school just had a preschool academy of sorts that was not connected to its mission, but what would be the point of that?[/quote]

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