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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you, that is helpful as well.   Still a bit confused though... there is a difference between board members and founders, isn't there?  The criteria for being a Board Member (even if you're an original Board Member) usually does not require the sweat equity, time and intense commitment that being a founder does, right?

I can understand why founders' kids would get preference (at least in the first classes), while maybe Board Members would be limited, because really without the founders, the school wouldn't exist.

So does the language above mean that all founders become part of the "Founding Board", plus other types of Board members, but ALL Board Members are eligible for the Founding Board exception for their kids?

If so, I can see how that could get hairy.  Sometimes you pick founding board members who have political connections/clout, or who are basically "good names" to have on your board, but they haven't necessarily done a whole lot to make the school happen.  I bet there are tons of interesting stories from charters that already exist on how they navigated this dynamic when it came to which kids got preference, although maybe there was more equality of how much work founding board members put in in the DC charter schools?[/quote]

Of course, even if there were, say,  25 children that doesn't mean they'd all need to use preference at once.  Say they're evenly distributed 2 y.o.,3 y.o,4,5,6etc.  (5 of each).  In the first year of the school's existence, it is very unlikely that every grade would be filled.  Say you were starting with PS3, PK4, K, and 1.  1st is unlikely to fill up, thus those 5 6y.o. applicants get in easily.  The 3,4,5 add up to 15 students, they all get preference.  The following year, the 5 2 y.o. applicants get to the top of the list via founder's preference followed by the younger sibs of students now enrolled.  Also, you can get one child in via founders pref (say, one of the 1st graders) and get his 3 or 4 y.o. little sib in via sibling pref.[/quote]

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