Anonymous wrote:

How are we to know this isn't a trollish accusation? Can you provide "absolute. proof"?

No, I can't say the name of this parent here. But I posted on this thread to give a heads up to the hundreds of YY hopefuls that all is not transparent. That certain people have been assured that the standard lottery/waitlist process will not apply to them.

If you would like to confirm this for yourselves, which is only right, then follow up with the administration and track the waitlist process, yourself. Signing off now.

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Anonymous wrote:No the problem is that those of you who think it's not a huge hardship to be out there in line (and I would be in that camp for my personal life -- could totally do it if necessary), don't have jobs in which you would lose your job if you were at YY at 8 am rather than at work. Jobs at which you are not at a computer. So it automatically locks out a whole group of people in this city. People who don't work at a desk, cannot be sitting home in their jammies at 8 am, can't miss work to stand on line. People who don't have internet access and have to go to the library to use computers there. These people do not necessarily care any less about their kids' education than those who were on the line this am and online, but they simply cannot make what you all did happen. It's sad that so many of you don't seem to realize this. What kinds of jobs do you think the people on FARMS have? It doesn't even have to be people who make low salaries. How is the cashier at the grocery, the person at the counter at McD's, the garbage man, the nurse, the surgeon, the police officer, the TEACHER, etc. etc. going to do this. My DH is a teacher and he's in the classroom teaching by 8 am every day. With students in front of him. I have a serious problem with YY choosing this method and an even more serious problem with people implying that if you care about your child's education, you can figure out a way to get your application in during those first 10 minutes. Washington Latin seems to be doing away with the waited waitlist idea for this year and I think YY should as well.

I don't have any interest in the school and my kids are past the age anyway, but these kinds of things in public schools drive me crazy. They are supposed to be open to ALL, regardless of your work schedule.

Yawn.

Family care act (FMLA). Sick day. A "dentist appointment." A friend or family member who owes you a favor. A babysitter. Your faux indignation and outrage is not convincing.

Never mind, just never mind. And honestly (speaking just for myself, I don't know about the other couple of posters I agree with) my very real indignation is not at all about convincing someone like you who doesn't read the posts even half way before dismissing them. It's expressed for those who never considered that not everyone has jobs or family/support options like they do and for whom that might be a new consideration.

But your verite cluelessness is convincing...me to go to bed and leave this point alone.

If your child is having a medical emergency, can you get him to an ER or does he die in his bed?

If your answer is that you can get him to an ER, then you can use the same supports to get yourself into a line for a couple of hours for one day in your life.

If you can't, and you're going with the "die in bed" choice, then something tells me you've got bigger issues than how to inch up on some charter school waitlist line.

Anonymous wrote:

You might find this difficult to believe, but just because you scream on the internet that you "have. absolute. proof" doesn't mean you've actually proven anything.

I don't have to prove anything to you to make it true. You understand this, right? You can completely refuse to believe me and yet, what I am saying can still be fact. I can't, however, state the name of this parent on DCUM. At a minimum, Jeff would pull the post.

I'm trying to decide whether you are employed by the school, an existing parent at the school here to defend its honor, or (least likely) a hopeful applicant who also stands to gain due to some amount of Chinese ethnicity in your family.

How are we to know this isn't a trollish accusation? Can you provide "absolute. proof"?

You might find this difficult to believe, but just because you scream on the internet that you "have. absolute. proof" doesn't mean you've actually proven anything.

Anonymous wrote:I am not a troll @ 23:45. (you can probably refresh your memory as to the definition of a "troll;" hint, it's not "someone who disagrees with you or says something bad about your school.")

I am not a Yu Ying PCS hater, either. I am just grossed out by this parent. And, since it's 200% clear that many of you care deeply about landing a spot in this school, I thought you might want to know that one of "your" spots won't go to you, the rightful recipient in line at 7 am. It will instead go to the partially Chinese kid who is not a heritage speaker and differs very little from your children except in his physical appearance.

Anonymous wrote:[quote]I absolutely, positively know of an applicant who is part ethnic Chinese, part other things. Not bilingual. And his Chinese parent is working to game the system and assure admittance. That is, working connections, ingratiating the administration. Offering favors, which is very Chinese if you know how politics is played on the mainland.

Does this rankle you? It does me and I have no direct contact with dc schools.


No, it doesn't "rankle" me at all.

Accusations are not the same thing as proof. Perhaps you are not familiar with the concepts of evidence and due process?