This happened to DS's classmate. He came in on meet the teacher day (after he had spent a few days at another school), then was away for a week (at another charter), then he reappeared in the class. Maybe he will stay, maybe not. Seems like a lot to put a four year old through.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in DCPS school and I have never heard of a child doing a mock school day. Maybe its a thing that charter schools will allow because they need numbers? Enrolled children attend class. If a child enrolls in a new school that new school calls the old school for the transfer papers.

That's what I thought.

The transfer communication happens like this if the old and new schools are both DCPS. If one or both is a charter, the parent communicates to the old and new school about the transfer.

Its not a mock day. It's a sick day.

Anonymous wrote:I work in DCPS school and I have never heard of a child doing a mock school day. Maybe its a thing that charter schools will allow because they need numbers? Enrolled children attend class. If a child enrolls in a new school that new school calls the old school for the transfer papers.

That's what I thought.

I work in DCPS school and I have never heard of a child doing a mock school day. Maybe its a thing that charter schools will allow because they need numbers? Enrolled children attend class. If a child enrolls in a new school that new school calls the old school for the transfer papers.

A friend of mine had her daughter do a shadow day at her now new school (DCPS) and told the former school (a charter) that is why she would be absent. Once the day was over, she completed enrollment papers and withdrew her from the charter. She wasn't on a waitlist either. She called the school the Friday after school began and they had space available.

You're not crazy. I plan to send my son to his "new" school for 2 days next week. I plan to stay for part of the morning on the first day and send him all day on Tuesday. If I get a good feel for the class and the school - I plan to withdraw him from his current school on Wednesday. But for now, we will be using 2 spots. Sorry, that's how the Fall School Shuffle goes....... School spots open and change until like Oct 1.