Wow! So it's turning out to be a huge entry year for MV! Great news for waitlisted families. Here's hoping the jump in enrollment will be smooth.

We were just called off the wait list for K and was able to our younger child in for Pk3 (who was not matched or waitlisted because he was matched with a higher ranking school)

As someone in the 390s, this totally blows my mind. My mantra "DC will get in for K" isn't true I guess.

Awesome. Awesome. Sarcasm.

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

How many spots did they add of each? How many classes will there be? Thanks for this info.

instead of 88 pk3/4 students there will now be 132. classes are 2/3 pk4 and 1/3 pk3. 6 instead of 4 classes. this means big admission year for pk this year but smaller admissions the year after for Pk4 and K due to expansion of class size this year.

Those are really really large classes. What does that bring the school to? So they may go to the 40-50s on the waitlists if this is true.
Whoever was spreading rumors that MV PK3 was only open for siblings before the lottery needs a spanking. I'm sure that led some families to take it off their lists.

(And those other 30-50 cars on P Street in the morning? Ugh!)

I never heard that rumor. Are you sure you're not thinking of Stokes, which wait listed siblings for PK3?

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

How many spots did they add of each? How many classes will there be? Thanks for this info.

instead of 88 pk3/4 students there will now be 132. classes are 2/3 pk4 and 1/3 pk3. 6 instead of 4 classes. this means big admission year for pk this year but smaller admissions the year after for Pk4 and K due to expansion of class size this year.

Those are really really large classes. What does that bring the school to? So they may go to the 40-50s on the waitlists if this is true.
Whoever was spreading rumors that MV PK3 was only open for siblings before the lottery needs a spanking. I'm sure that led some families to take it off their lists.

(And those other 30-50 cars on P Street in the morning? Ugh!)

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

How many spots did they add of each? How many classes will there be? Thanks for this info.

instead of 88 pk3/4 students there will now be 132. classes are 2/3 pk4 and 1/3 pk3. 6 instead of 4 classes. this means big admission year for pk this year but smaller admissions the year after for Pk4 and K due to expansion of class size this year.

Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

What? So how many now? 4?

Anonymous wrote:Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

How many spots did they add of each? How many classes will there be? Thanks for this info.

Turns out the waitlist is moving because they decided to add more PK3/4 classes at the last minute to make up for unanticipated budget shortfalls.

Anonymous wrote:^^^No idea why my computer added in Lloyd.

That made me laugh. I was trying to figure out if it was an obscure movie reference that I just wasn't getting!

Me neither but have you read
Tu Mama es una llama?

and Lloyd was my grandfather's name. He gave that book to my oldest in English many many years ago.........
We have it in Spanish as well. It is a wonderful book.

Good luck everyone. Just peeking in here. Bilingual immersion charters were not really around when my first kid started, so we missed the boat. But for any of you who speak Spanish (or any other language) at home, even if your kid gets to a point where they refuse and answer you in English, just know that if you cannot do immersion all is not lost. Our oldest has picked it right back up, perfect accent, perfect grammar, and an intuitive sense even though last time the child really spoke it was age 5. Now taking it for the first time almost ten years later and learning how to read and write and doing well........................... Just make your kids bilingual - speaking - somehow.........

anyway, don't flame me please.

we will have to play the common lottery for our last child next year for MS and are absolutely dreading it..............
which is why I am avoiding all the MS threads

^^^No idea why my computer added in Lloyd.

I think a lot of the MV is the bestest comments are from Capitol Hill. The location is nearby and Spanish Immersion is greatly desired. Plus the middle school and high school situation on the Hill sucks right now so a dci feeder looks amazing. I think LAMB is rightly seen as nearly impossible to get in (even though the South Dakota campus is about 15 minutes away), but MV still looks obtainable. And Tyler... Well let's say that MV's issues look minor next to that.

Lloyd, let's be honest, it's still an awesome school even with its imperfections right?

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Anonymous wrote:MV - the new "safety" school.

Ha!

Meant to add, how the times have changed.

New safety school is crap. Further more I am sure that MV would prefer to be a safety school than not a choice at all.

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Anonymous wrote:MV - the new "safety" school.

Ha!

Meant to add, how the times have changed.