Anonymous wrote:How does this work for high school?

It doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP if you want a better placement, have a high- profile role with the PTA. PTA presidents in particular get good placements for their kids.

BINGO

NOT

Anonymous wrote:OP if you want a better placement, have a high- profile role with the PTA. PTA presidents in particular get ugood placements for their kids.

Not necessarily

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also had a lot of success with teacher assignments by describing the desired classroom environment. For example, saying my kid does best and feels less anxious in a quiet classroom environment. That might best describe a particular teacher I wanted.

Who are you describing it to though?

Some schools have a form parents fill out that is used in teacher placement. It lets you describe the qualities in a teacher that would be most beneficial to your child without requesting a specific teacher. -DP

Anonymous wrote:I also had a lot of success with teacher assignments by describing the desired classroom environment. For example, saying my kid does best and feels less anxious in a quiet classroom environment. That might best describe a particular teacher I wanted.

Who are you describing it to though?

Anonymous wrote:How does this work for high school?

It's much more complicated for HS. Students submit their course requests in Jan or Feb, and admin figures out how many sections of each class will be offered the following year. (A number likely being decreased now because of the budget allocations.) One of the APs is usually the master scheduler. The counselors feed students' course requests into the system and it makes a first pass at assigning students to individual sections. Then they spend time over the summer rejiggering everything to correct errors and try to balance class sizes. Sometimes kids' electives aren't available given their other classes and scheduling conflicts, so they have to go to alternates, which causes more rejiggering. The fall schedule isn't final until the end of August. And then a lot of kids have whole new schedules for the second semester starting in late January.

Anonymous wrote:OP if you want a better placement, have a high- profile role with the PTA. PTA presidents in particular get good placements for their kids.

BINGO