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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Not at all! I clearly said that I wasn't comfortable with any kind of lying. I can't imagine how you would continue that lie through school. I guess I shouldn't have mentioned the twin thing - it was something we'd joked about. Didn't realize it would get everyone all upset/confused. I was just wondering if other people did lie, based on what seem to be a LOT of siblings! Cos having a sibling at a school seems to be about the only way to get into a lot of them! [/quote]

It is frustrating, but it makes sense.  There's one entry year, say PS.  Say there's 40 slots.  But if the school goes through 8th grade, there are 10 other grades (400 kids).  Many/most of them are not only children - say 350.  Not say most people have kids within 5 years of each other - that leaves 175 current students with siblings.  If only 20% of them are the PS year, that's 35 out of 40 seats taken up by siblings.  [/quote]

This is a good question.  I've thought about it too, but didn't do the math.  Still, at some point only children or oldest children will have to get in.  Few families have more than four kids so existing students can't continue to provide siblings indefinitely.  I wonder if this phenomena is due in part to many of the charters being new and initially filling up with the first child in a family.  In the next couple of years perhaps there will be more non-sibling slots at some schools.[/quote]

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