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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Twin parent, if your twins are #1 at each other's matches, your odds are very good. Have you looked at the data for previous year waitlist movement for the two schools in question? It's not a perfect predictor, but it can set your mind at ease. Most schools make a least a few waitlist offers, and many will wind up going deep into their lists. I anticipate your kids will be at the same school before August. Though I can understand why that's a stressful situation to be in.[/quote]

So dismayed to see that DCPS still has not figured out how to accommodate twins, triplets, etc. We went private because our work schedules required certainty not months of wonder and worry. Sibling preference should work for multiples, not just for singletons. Ridic.[/quote]

Preschool class sizes have a firm legal enrollment cap.  Sorry if you don't like it, but it isn't a matter of DCPS figuring anything out.  [/quote]

No, they could design software to make this work. They just don't want to go to the extra length to do so. And my guess is that you don't have twins and may even benefit from sibling preference for your string of singletons. You will take your benefit just not extend it to someone else. [/quote]

Software to change the federal Head Start regulation on class size?

You seem strangely bitter.  There is already a sibling preference that, most of the time puts both kids at the same school whether they are twins, multiples, or in different grades.  And some families choose to split up their kids to gain access to a preferred school for both in the following year, but that is their choice and they don't have to do it.  Very very rare is the family that literally has no choice but to separate their twins.[/quote]

Seriously? I just can't with the willful misreading. Nothing I wrote was about increase in class size, exclusively related to class assignment.

I don't think "strangely bitter" is an accurate description of a working parent who tried to navigate DCPS fifteen years ago, seeking to enroll twins in PreK @ same school that offered more than one class/grade. We ultimately did not send our DCs to DCPS as we could not be guaranteed spots at the same school. No one seemed to care that working parents couldn't race across one, two, maybe three wards to leave and pick up kids from different schools with arrivals/dismissals at the same time and still hold jobs. Back then, the stance was that sibling preference was only extended to families of consecutive singletons, but not multiples. Gathering a lot has changed. While we were not successful, I hope our lobbying may have contributed to a more accommodating stance. I would describe that as anything but "strangely bitter" but you do you.[/quote]

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