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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year Inspired 2nd grade had 2 lottery seats and 46 on the waitlist. Only 1 offer had been made by August. Then 29 offers by October!

The parents of 27 kids had ranked Inspired higher than the school the kid ultimately attended, and they still didn't move the kid.

What does that say? Preference for stability? Or they liked the school they got more than they thought they did?

Irrelevant detail: we moved our kid in the last week of September in PK-3, and it made her very happy.

Now she's #15 at inspired 2nd grade, which is a September or later offer, if at all.[/quote]

Absolutely guessing here, but I would think that people moving in 1st are already fairly settled somewhere and less inclined to take a spot offered in September or October than families at other grade levels. [/quote]

As a family who was offered one of those second grade spots last year: it's this. If it has been PK, K, or maybe 1st, we would have done it. A month of second is a big deal for a 7 yr old, they would have fought us on it and if it wasn't a good fit we would have felt extra bad about taking them from their current school.

This year we got into our first choice school for 3rd (not Inspired, though we ranked it again) and I'm so glad we didn't go through that upheaval last year. [/quote]

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