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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An Admisdions Director is at fault when a respected alum father, who is not separated & has full custody, tells her he has had two children in the school very successfully, but the school's educational offerings are  not in this child's best interests such  that he will neither sign the application nor pay for attendance. Any Admin Officer admitting a student under that circumstance is willfully choosing to "split" a 5 yo from her custodial father and dooming future teachers to a failed Parent-teacher relationship. Hard to find worse Admiss Officer judgment [/quote]

I think this makes sense, actually.  Why would a school accept a child when one parent was so strongly opposed, for whatever reason?  How is this going to be a good fit for the family?[/quote]

I think the first poster has a point. Aside from the parent-teacher relationship angle, what about any semblance of fairness in the admissions process???
SFS has fewer than 50 pre-K spots for all of Washington.   I would guess they receive hundreds of applications to fill those 50 spots.  They put applicant families through a rigamarole of parent interview, parent essay, etc.  All those steps give the impression that parental engagement/involvement are valued criteria for joining the SFS community.   SFS's admissions team apparently decided that a resident of Florida whose father explicitly didn't want her to attend SFS (and who lived more than 1,000 miles away and wouldn't sign the paperwork or pay the tuition) needed one of the coveted spots.  [/quote]

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