Anonymous
07/08/2021 17:22
Subject: Re:Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
We put our rising K child on 3 Bright Horizon waitlists when I was pregnant and the only "communication" we have had from them since is them cashing the check! I think one had some sort of priority for law firm employees in the same building but other than that I think they were all just regular centers not affiliated with a work place. Kinda seems like the kind of thing that is ripe for regulation
Anonymous
07/08/2021 15:47
Subject: Re:Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
Anonymous wrote:Last I heard that daycare was still closed because they hadn't opened that office building yet. I wonder if maybe they are finally reopening and trying to fill slots from all the families who found other solutions while they were closed? That might be why they are contacting families who have been on the waitlist for years.
I think normally if you don't work for DOJ in some capacity, or even have extended family who do, it's pretty much impossible to get a spot.
They just posted here recently that they are reopening with rooms for presscholers. How terrible that it was closed this WHOLE time! We lucked out and got a spot for PK4 several years ago with no federal parent at all. Like a lot of daycares, 3s and 4s empty out when kids go to DCPS. It's a really good center, still has the same director as when we were there.
Anonymous
07/08/2021 14:39
Subject: Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
Wow that's extreme! My kids used to be at the SEC daycare right nearby.
Anonymous
07/08/2021 14:37
Subject: Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
I got on 3 waitlists at 11 weeks pregnant and heard from 2 of them when my child was over a year old. Never heard from the 3rd. Good thing we had back-up options (grandparents), I don't know what we would have done otherwise.
Anonymous
07/08/2021 12:00
Subject: Re:Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
Last I heard that daycare was still closed because they hadn't opened that office building yet. I wonder if maybe they are finally reopening and trying to fill slots from all the families who found other solutions while they were closed? That might be why they are contacting families who have been on the waitlist for years.
I think normally if you don't work for DOJ in some capacity, or even have extended family who do, it's pretty much impossible to get a spot.
I think normally if you don't work for DOJ in some capacity, or even have extended family who do, it's pretty much impossible to get a spot.
Anonymous
07/08/2021 11:57
Subject: Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
We just got off the waitlist for a well-known DC preschool after 2.5 years. We signed up when I was 2 months pregnant and now our kid is 2 years old!
Anonymous
07/05/2021 16:44
Subject: Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
Anonymous wrote:Just received a call from Thurgood Marshall daycare center, and we made it off the waiting list! We are a fed family- but not one with priority at that center. I signed up when I was 8 weeks pregnant. My kiddo is now 2 years 9 months old!
I’m sure Covid didn’t help the situation, but man just another PSA to get on those waiting lists ASAP!
Do you have to be pregnant to get on the waitlists? If so- do ppl just lie and get on the lists before they are pregnant? Incoming federal employee and I am doing IVF (im single) so I hopefully will have some control over when I conceive. Thanks!
Anonymous
06/15/2021 14:51
Subject: Re:Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
yeah it's ridiculous, i remember getting a spot at some daycare center in downtown DC (USKids?) It was for a 4 year old slot and I had signed up when my kid was pregnant. But it's at least a partial scam so they can get your application fees because some of these daycares know they already have hundreds of kids on their waitlist and that you have no chance to get in.
Anonymous
06/15/2021 14:49
Subject: Finally got off the waiting list- 3 years later!
Just received a call from Thurgood Marshall daycare center, and we made it off the waiting list! We are a fed family- but not one with priority at that center. I signed up when I was 8 weeks pregnant. My kiddo is now 2 years 9 months old!
I’m sure Covid didn’t help the situation, but man just another PSA to get on those waiting lists ASAP!
I’m sure Covid didn’t help the situation, but man just another PSA to get on those waiting lists ASAP!