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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The sibling preference absolutely benefits at twins.  At our charter (which enjoys long waitlists every year, which is simply to say families want to be there), every class my kids have ever been in has multiple twins - there is such a vast overrepresentation of twins, that it is a well-known and remarked upon fact among our group of friends (many of which are twin parents).  Of course there are significant challenges to having multiples, no one is disputing that - but the school lottery set-up is not one of those hardships.[/quote]

As per my reply to someone else, this must've occurred within the last fifteen years as sibling preference did not include multiples. Glad to see that there has been change.[/quote]

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