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Anonymous wrote:Realistically I’m probably going to be at my desk trying to work but actually checking every five minutes. I suspect my husband will be doing the same from his office. We both WFH on Fridays so someone will probably just yell decisions from across the house. We’ve agreed to not obsess over it in front of DD (she’s 4) so we’ll try to turn off the anxiety by 5 to go pick her up.

I feel bad for your kid that you’re both this stressed over this at 4.

Have you applied for a kid? If not, be quiet. It's stressful even for the most chill people.

DP. No, I haven’t applied. We just send our child to public school with the rest of the unclean heathens. I do hope you make it in somewhere. Because what would happen if you didn’t???

Our school prospects say no letters will come, only Ravenna. Our Catholic obviously was not in Ravenna. Thanks for tip that kids can tell if you looked!

Anonymous wrote:There are rumors that some schools are already posting decisions.

Operative word here is "rumor"

Anonymous wrote:Heads up: once you open the decision page for a school in Ravenna, it will indicate that the decision has been read, so if your child asks you to wait to look at decisions in Ravenna together, but you can't wait and check without them, Ravenna will show you've already looked...

Ty for the tip.
What do parents of older kids usually do? Do they open the letters with their child there?

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Anonymous wrote:Sign up for informed delivery with the Post Office so that if they mailed something, you could possibly see it coming at 7am when the USPS send the notification for what's in your mail for that day.

+1! This is where some folks see the swag coming!

This is a joke right?

I’m the PP. Not a joke. We have had informed delivery for a few years now. We see what is coming in the mail that day. Last year, some folks posted here that they received notice of a package or letter arriving on the Friday morning that decisions were coming out. Not true for every school, but it can’t hurt to have it.

Not all schools send mail because it's expensive, but some do, including the school I work for. So this is correct! But it's not guaranteed to be in your mailbox Friday. It could also be Saturday.
It's also a very obvious "you're admitted" package, not a denial letter or anything like that.

I also have informed delivery and DC was admitted to two Catholic high schools in the past few weeks. Welcome packets came Saturday and neither showed in the email. I was hoping to see this Friday morning too, but no dice.

It's stressful, I know. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically I’m probably going to be at my desk trying to work but actually checking every five minutes. I suspect my husband will be doing the same from his office. We both WFH on Fridays so someone will probably just yell decisions from across the house. We’ve agreed to not obsess over it in front of DD (she’s 4) so we’ll try to turn off the anxiety by 5 to go pick her up.

I feel bad for your kid that you’re both this stressed over this at 4.

Good for you if you are MAGA + don't care where or if their kids go to school. Others do care. You are on the wrong forum. Go over to the public school or home school threads.

NP who is also concerned about your level of stress on a 4 year old. And yes, I do care where my child goes to school. She attends public in the Whitman cluster so we’re doing fine, thanks!

For what it's worth, I think that's the best cluster in the country. Literally.

You have not been outside of your bubble in awhile. They are plenty of better places/schools.

This.

Nope. It is the best cluster in the country.

And yet about half of the kids in my neighborhood (walking distance to Whitman) are in private. A big public is not a great fit for every kid. Some kids will thrive at Whitman while others will do better in a different environment. (And not all privates are the same. . . thus all of this worry around decision time.).

Signed,
Family with two kids doing well in HS: one at Whitman and one in private.

PP in the Whitman cluster: Most kids we know start out in public. All the schools are great and it's so nice to be able to meet neighbors and bike down the street to see friends. We started to see kids switching in 3rd and then some in 4th, more by the start of middle school and even more by high school. It's difficult to predict what your child may need at age 4 or 5 and most do great in the regular public schools in this are. GL!

If the schools are so great, then why are kids switching out?

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Anonymous wrote:Sign up for informed delivery with the Post Office so that if they mailed something, you could possibly see it coming at 7am when the USPS send the notification for what's in your mail for that day.

+1! This is where some folks see the swag coming!

This is a joke right?

I’m the PP. Not a joke. We have had informed delivery for a few years now. We see what is coming in the mail that day. Last year, some folks posted here that they received notice of a package or letter arriving on the Friday morning that decisions were coming out. Not true for every school, but it can’t hurt to have it.

Not all schools send mail because it's expensive, but some do, including the school I work for. So this is correct! But it's not guaranteed to be in your mailbox Friday. It could also be Saturday.
It's also a very obvious "you're admitted" package, not a denial letter or anything like that.

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Anonymous wrote:We applied for 7th grade and we're deliberately keeping this low key. I'm not even sure DS knows what day the decisions come out. Our mantra (for him and for us) is that, while we may have preferences about where he ends up, ultimately he'll be fine wherever he lands, even if he stays in his public school.

The stress really doesn't help, and keep in mind, no one on this board will be faced with either private school admissions or dropping their child into a pit of knives. They'll be fine.

Will you and your coparent log in together? Or is one of your going to do that? Is one of you at. least a little more anxious than the other?

I don't know - we don't have any kind of plan. Probably I'll log in at some point Friday afternoon and let him know. But maybe he'll think of it before I do.

We're both generally the same amount of anxious - DH maybe a little more than me, but that's true across the board

Anonymous wrote:We applied for 7th grade and we're deliberately keeping this low key. I'm not even sure DS knows what day the decisions come out. Our mantra (for him and for us) is that, while we may have preferences about where he ends up, ultimately he'll be fine wherever he lands, even if he stays in his public school.

The stress really doesn't help, and keep in mind, no one on this board will be faced with either private school admissions or dropping their child into a pit of knives. They'll be fine.

Will you and your coparent log in together? Or is one of your going to do that? Is one of you at. least a little more anxious than the other?

We applied for 7th grade and we're deliberately keeping this low key. I'm not even sure DS knows what day the decisions come out. Our mantra (for him and for us) is that, while we may have preferences about where he ends up, ultimately he'll be fine wherever he lands, even if he stays in his public school.

The stress really doesn't help, and keep in mind, no one on this board will be faced with either private school admissions or dropping their child into a pit of knives. They'll be fine.

Anonymous wrote:Which school reveal on Friday?

All of the independent schools reveal at the same time on Friday. (est 4:00 pm.). The Catholics are scattered dates as are the boarding schools (I think)

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All of them

Specifically.

Every private school in the area. No need to make a list.

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically I’m probably going to be at my desk trying to work but actually checking every five minutes. I suspect my husband will be doing the same from his office. We both WFH on Fridays so someone will probably just yell decisions from across the house. We’ve agreed to not obsess over it in front of DD (she’s 4) so we’ll try to turn off the anxiety by 5 to go pick her up.

I feel bad for your kid that you’re both this stressed over this at 4.

Good for you if you are MAGA + don't care where or if their kids go to school. Others do care. You are on the wrong forum. Go over to the public school or home school threads.

NP who is also concerned about your level of stress on a 4 year old. And yes, I do care where my child goes to school. She attends public in the Whitman cluster so we’re doing fine, thanks!

For what it's worth, I think that's the best cluster in the country. Literally.

You have not been outside of your bubble in awhile. They are plenty of better places/schools.

This.

Nope. It is the best cluster in the country.

And yet about half of the kids in my neighborhood (walking distance to Whitman) are in private. A big public is not a great fit for every kid. Some kids will thrive at Whitman while others will do better in a different environment. (And not all privates are the same. . . thus all of this worry around decision time.).

Signed,
Family with two kids doing well in HS: one at Whitman and one in private.

PP in the Whitman cluster: Most kids we know start out in public. All the schools are great and it's so nice to be able to meet neighbors and bike down the street to see friends. We started to see kids switching in 3rd and then some in 4th, more by the start of middle school and even more by high school. It's difficult to predict what your child may need at age 4 or 5 and most do great in the regular public schools in this are. GL!