Your kid is not going to get into MV so stop worrying about it and research other schools where you can actually get in.

Anonymous wrote:I'm really not a troll. I'm the "moving to dc" poster from a while back. And I'm happy with our ib, I'm mostly just curious. Is this like an Arts and Letters in Brooklyn kind of thing?

OP, we are at MV and my friend's kid goes to Arts and Letters. I would say the schools are very similar in educational philosophy. Although MV is a green school I wouldn't describe the school vibe as crunchy. I lived in Park Slope and shopped at the PS co-op--that's crinchie!

Anonymous wrote:As I said, I was just curious. Not really planning to send dd there--just the waitlist number gave me pause. That doesn't make me a troll. I've found precious little concrete information about any of the desirable charters... except that they are desirable. We would be going in the middle grades, and our wait list number from round two has moved 4 more slots closer. We moved to DC a week ago--forgive me for not doing more due diligence.

So it's a bilingual crunchy school. The kids wear t-shirts. What kind of math do they do? Is there science? Is there a library? I'm still a little confused about how the charters rank their test scores vs. the regular publics. Is there testing at all?

I think you might need to start with general education about the system here instead of getting bogged down in discussions of particular schools in which you have no current shot of entering. MV won't get to the second round of lottery results until it goes through the first round, which has hundreds of people listed for some grades. The chances that it gets to round two for any grade is so minute that you shouldn't consider it.

There is a lot of information about each of the schools. I would try the websites and open houses. Formal comparitive testing doesn't occur until third grade so new charters won't have the same sort of data that older schools do. Plus, as people explained, there are additional factors with a new school, so it is hard to go on test scores alone. Good luck. I hope you end up in somewhere good, but if not, please prepare early for next years lottery.

As I said, I was just curious. Not really planning to send dd there--just the waitlist number gave me pause. That doesn't make me a troll. I've found precious little concrete information about any of the desirable charters... except that they are desirable. We would be going in the middle grades, and our wait list number from round two has moved 4 more slots closer. We moved to DC a week ago--forgive me for not doing more due diligence.

So it's a bilingual crunchy school. The kids wear t-shirts. What kind of math do they do? Is there science? Is there a library? I'm still a little confused about how the charters rank their test scores vs. the regular publics. Is there testing at all?

Their website is updated again. K appears to have only moved 4 spots since the initial movement. It is not going to happen for us.

Anonymous wrote:Did MV have open spots after the first round of the lottery? I thought it had a long waitlist. Wasn't Round 2 just for schools that didn't fill their seats in Round 1 or did I totally miss how this worked?

Answering this question- Round 2 was for students who weren't accepted into any schools in Round 1, or who didn't apply at all in Round 1. You could put any school on your list.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really not a troll. I'm the "moving to dc" poster from a while back. And I'm happy with our ib, I'm mostly just curious. Is this like an Arts and Letters in Brooklyn kind of thing?

How can you possibly have a decent wait list number in round 2? Their round 1 wait list went into the hundreds for most grades.

I agree. But even if you do, do some research on the school yourself. Don't come on a forum to talk about how you got a great wl number in round 2 and say "I know nothing about this school; do my research for me." And then reference a Brooklyn school that is completely irrelevant to those of us who have been in DC with our kids.

I still say troll.

There is no need to research the school in this situation. Not happening this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really not a troll. I'm the "moving to dc" poster from a while back. And I'm happy with our ib, I'm mostly just curious. Is this like an Arts and Letters in Brooklyn kind of thing?

How can you possibly have a decent wait list number in round 2? Their round 1 wait list went into the hundreds for most grades.

I agree. But even if you do, do some research on the school yourself. Don't come on a forum to talk about how you got a great wl number in round 2 and say "I know nothing about this school; do my research for me." And then reference a Brooklyn school that is completely irrelevant to those of us who have been in DC with our kids.

I still say troll.

Anonymous wrote:I'm really not a troll. I'm the "moving to dc" poster from a while back. And I'm happy with our ib, I'm mostly just curious. Is this like an Arts and Letters in Brooklyn kind of thing?

How can you possibly have a decent wait list number in round 2? Their round 1 wait list went into the hundreds for most grades.

I'm really not a troll. I'm the "moving to dc" poster from a while back. And I'm happy with our ib, I'm mostly just curious. Is this like an Arts and Letters in Brooklyn kind of thing?

Did MV have open spots after the first round of the lottery? I thought it had a long waitlist. Wasn't Round 2 just for schools that didn't fill their seats in Round 1 or did I totally miss how this worked?

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Anonymous wrote:I know it's a popular school, and I put it down on the lottery second round because of that. We actually got a decent waitlist number, so I'm wondering if I should pursue this. Aside from it being kind of crunchy and bilingual, I don't know anything about it. Can you all tell me more? What makes it so great? What is not so great?

troll.

You beat me to it!

Anonymous wrote:I know it's a popular school, and I put it down on the lottery second round because of that. We actually got a decent waitlist number, so I'm wondering if I should pursue this. Aside from it being kind of crunchy and bilingual, I don't know anything about it. Can you all tell me more? What makes it so great? What is not so great?

troll.

I know it's a popular school, and I put it down on the lottery second round because of that. We actually got a decent waitlist number, so I'm wondering if I should pursue this. Aside from it being kind of crunchy and bilingual, I don't know anything about it. Can you all tell me more? What makes it so great? What is not so great?

How much will 3rd grade move into the WL? Does anyone know? Not sure if I should bother applying or not.