Anonymous wrote:I find it beyond ridiculous that in 2013, there are schools running lotteries by picking slips of paper out of a hat. By volunteers! WTF?

some school guidelines say school administration can not pick. who else was to do it?


it is suppose to be transparent - the old picking pieces of paper is a simple method that supports transparency. Do you have a proposed solution? As a volunteer that picked names, I would love to hear it!

Sheesh. Lighten up, Francis. What's outrageous is your sense of entitlement.

Everybody exhale. Lotteries were Friday night at several schools. Imagine that school leaders are people too and may want to have a weekend before going back to their students on Monday. The common dates for the schools were March 15th to apply, March 22nd, and April 12th to have families enroll. That means they've got three weeks to do round one.

If you are this high maintenance then maybe a charter isn't for you! Charters, especially new ones, require help from parents to make them successful. This includes parent volunteers who help at the lotteries. Chill.

Last year IT had their posted over the weekend. It hasn't even been 24 hours since their lottery. Chill.

I find it beyond ridiculous that in 2013, there are schools running lotteries by picking slips of paper out of a hat. By volunteers! WTF?

well, they need time to shuffle the deck

^ No not desperate. Did not enter lotteries this yr but can't help noticing that the wait for results is longer this yr than previous yrs.

Anonymous wrote:Some schools used to put the results up pretty fast like the next day, lottery on Tuesday and results up Wednesday. Maybe b/c many lotteries were on a Friday, they don't want to work over the weekend to put the results up online and they aren't bothered by lots of phone calls.

Not sure why they cannot put the results up in real time online as the lottery takes place. Too much work setting it up probably...

Or because, as a pp said, there are things that need to be double- and triple-checked.

If you're that desperate for immediate results, you should have attended the lottery.

Some schools used to put the results up pretty fast like the next day, lottery on Tuesday and results up Wednesday. Maybe b/c many lotteries were on a Friday, they don't want to work over the weekend to put the results up online and they aren't bothered by lots of phone calls.

Not sure why they cannot put the results up in real time online as the lottery takes place. Too much work setting it up probably...

Anonymous wrote:

Dial it back, please.

+1

The lotteries weren't even done 24 hours ago. As PP said school had over 1000 numbers to draw. This is one of those thing you don't want to mess up when you post the results. It's a low tech process where any number can be transposed.

Dial it back, please.

Meant to say over a 1000 applications (not 100).

Anonymous wrote:For all the raves about charter schools, and for all the desperate parents hoping to get their DC in, not a single charter school, so far as I can tell (at least of those offering PS3), cares enough about their future families to post their lottery results online or notified parents by email of their waitlist numbers. What gives?

Chill out. These lotteries just took place on Friday. For schools that do the lottery in paper all the information has to be transferred electronically, double checked, siblings accounted for, formatted, and then posted to websites. Even for schools that do the lottery electronically, they too have to account for all the siblings, double check the data, and post. A lot of these schools have over 100 applications, if not several thousands, for children in as many as 15 different grades, sometimes at multiple campuses which is also impacting results (in situations where people can preference campuses). This doesn't happen in seconds and plenty of the lotteries were late afternoon or evening. Do you expect admins to spend all weekend doing this when it doesn't help anyone to know two days earlier. Relax.

For all the raves about charter schools, and for all the desperate parents hoping to get their DC in, not a single charter school, so far as I can tell (at least of those offering PS3), cares enough about their future families to post their lottery results online or notified parents by email of their waitlist numbers. What gives?