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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just cleaning out my email folders and discovered an email from Lee from last Friday letting me know that the East End campus has space in PK3, PK4, K, 1st, and 2nd (we received because we are waitlisted for Lee Brookland). Not sure if this still applies given that count day has passed, but it does say that people who added late for one of these spots would be given a lottery preference to switch to the Brookland campus next year.

We will not be taking advantage both because we don't feel comfortable moving our kid at this stage in the game and also because we are much closer to the Brookland campus and would not want to switch schools twice to get a spot there. But posting here unless someone else is interested.[/quote]

Wow.  That's gotta be financially painful, to have that many open seats.

I thought they weren't allowed to make the second campus into a transfer bullpen.  [/quote]

Don't know what was in their charter approval, but as of now transfer is NOT on the published Lottery Preference list for Lee - Brookland. They seem to be making commitments in writing to something that isn't yet formally in place. Not sure what recourse parents have if Lee doesn't honor that email next year.

https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/207/ - Brookland - Transfer is NOT on the Lottery Preference list
https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/430 - East End  - Transfer is on the Lottery Preference list
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I think this kind of transfer is really disfavored by the PCSB.  Second campuses, especially EOTR campuses, are not supposed to be a place where people pay their dues before getting into the first campus.  That destabilizes the second campus and makes it more difficult for the school to succeed.  And lottery preferences are not supposed to be handed out to individuals as enrollment incentives.  That's super sketch and Lee must be pretty desperate to do it.[/quote]

I disagree with nothing you wrote. The fact that they are making written commitments that contravene the current formal policy could create big problems going forward.[/quote]

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