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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

Oh noes! DCPS takes kids without any English knowledge...

I don’t even understand this comment

So refusing to take kids that are harder to serve is a luxury that some schools have and some don't. Think of that when you're patting yourselves on the back for being so much better. Or poor LAMB just can't handle the challenge.

Uh I don’t think you get it. LAMB would prefer to have far more ELL kids but they can’t. Those kids are actually harder to serve.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

Oh noes! DCPS takes kids without any English knowledge...

I don’t even understand this comment

So refusing to take kids that are harder to serve is a luxury that some schools have and some don't. Think of that when you're patting yourselves on the back for being so much better. Or poor LAMB just can't handle the challenge.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

Oh noes! DCPS takes kids without any English knowledge...

I don’t even understand this comment

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

Oh noes! DCPS takes kids without any English knowledge...

Exactly! People believe in equal opportunities until it affects them. Hipócritas!

Sure, it's not that dissimilar to the DCPS Immersion policy - they all test for Spanish proficiency for anyone who wants to enter (IB or OOB) starting at 2nd (unless you come from another DCPS Immersion school) So you could enter if you didn't have English proficiency, but only if you had Spanish proficiency.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

Oh noes! DCPS takes kids without any English knowledge...

Exactly! People believe in equal opportunities until it affects them. Hipócritas!

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

Oh noes! DCPS takes kids without any English knowledge...

Anonymous wrote:Yeah OP, do what's best for your kid. Go ahead and try out LAMB if you get in and if you like it. You have a pretty decent option in Bancroft if you don't like LAMB. Ignore the posters who are either trying to guilt you so that their kid has a better chance of getting in, or erroneously blaming you instead of LAMB's choices (whatever its merits/demerits).

Agreed. Every thread on LAMB has people saying that you shouldn't take a spot unless you are 100% sure that you want to do immersion and Montessori and plan to stay the whole elementary school years because it won't be fair to kids that might have stayed. Well I know plenty of LAMB families that intended to stay and didn't for various reasons, as well as some that thought they might not stay and then did. Do what works for your family

Yeah OP, do what's best for your kid. Go ahead and try out LAMB if you get in and if you like it. You have a pretty decent option in Bancroft if you don't like LAMB. Ignore the posters who are either trying to guilt you so that their kid has a better chance of getting in, or erroneously blaming you instead of LAMB's choices (whatever its merits/demerits).

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

LAMB backfills any spots through Kinder and stops taking new kids at 1st grade. So if someone wants to try LAMB for PK3/PK4 and then moves to the IB for Kinder, that spot is fully usable for someone else. LAMB (and the other charters) can't test for Spanish proficiency. This policy means that it can control for kids coming in at later grades without any Spanish knowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

This is LAMB's fault, not the posters. None of us know at preK3 what we want long term for our children and the lottery system is built around that fact.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

It's LAMB's choice to have that precious little policy, so if anyone is screwing kids it's LAMB.

Anonymous wrote:LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

Seriously. That spot usually doesn’t get back-filled by another kid your kid’s age who really wanted LAMB because they don’t accept hardly any kids after PK3.

Assuming you're English dominant and no siblings, you almost certainly won't get a spot at Bancroft. LAMB is close by and will give you Spanish to build upon. Makes sense to me.

LAMB is a great school. Don’t lottery if you’re going to leave. That just screws other kids.

What do people think about LAMB vs Bancroft? I doubt we will even get into Bancroft for pre-k but we might have a chance for LAMB and then could stay through elementary school. We are in bounds for Bancroft and I see that we might be able to “test” the fit at LAMB for a couple of years, and if it wasn’t right switch to Bancroft for kindergarten. Does anyone have thoughts on the two schools for the long term?