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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After we visited the school, most parents milled outside wondering why more schools weren't like this. It really did not seem like an out of the world school that couldn't be recreated. It seemed like a good school with high expectations for children and parents and it made us sad that it seemed to be such an outlier (such that a lottery was necessary due to all the demand)[/quote]

It’s the “no deadweight” model. Literally every kid has a parent that knows about and has figured out how to navigate the lottery. That’s the part that can’t be replicated, at least not without eating into the neighborhood schools.  [/quote]

How hard is it to figure out the lottery?  I can't believe that's the major difference... It's all over the APS website and we get multiple communications about it!  Are there that many parents that don't know about it?[/quote]

Trying again.

I only started getting APS emails after my first was already in kinder in APS. By that point there is very little movement into option schools if you don’t get in that first year. How exactly would APS have know how to contact me before the enrolled my first in public school? [/quote]

As others seem to insist on another thread about IB at WL, apparently parents are supposed to do their research which must include at least all of the following: talking to the principal of your neighborhood school, talking to admin at other schools, talking to neighbors, talking to parents who have kids at option schools, talking to parents who put in for option schools but didn't get in, and reading the APS website and policies (and not necessarily taking those at their written word).

In other words, you wouldn't. But schools should implement open houses/orientations for rising kindergartner families and they could provide information on the option programs and application procedures. We were not considering any option schools when our first child started kindergarten; but I came close to considering one (Campbell) after attending a general "Kindergarten preparedness" presentation held there. It was pretty clever of them, imo. It wasn't an orientation or a "come learn about Campbell" billing or presentation. But they did describe how they do things there and the principal at the time was very impressive, so I started to think about it. Perhaps every elementary school should hold such a presentation for new families registering.[/quote]

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