[House] Discussion about the SFUSD Public School Lottery? (fwd)

[Robin Lee Powell]

I trust you to handle this stuff, but I am mildly interested, yes.

Isn't it too late, though?  I mean, by that point won't we already
be in whatever school we get?

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 07:05:02AM -0700, Ruth Anne wrote:
> Anyone else interested in attending with me?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:21:18 -0700
> From: Lucia Wallace <luciab at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [House] Discussion about the SFUSD Public School Lottery?
> 
> Hello everybody,
> Thank you for your interest in the SFPOM Preschool, Kinder and Beyond
> discussion about the SFUSD Public School Lottery! I was fortunate enough to
> get my twins into my #2 listed school, New Traditions, start time 9:30m, and
> am so thrilled. I know of 3 families (two twins, one singleton) who got
> nothing on their list, and we wanted to have a discussion to help everybody
> avoid the mistakes they made - ha, easy to say if you win the lottery,
> right?...but seriously, it's not as complicated as it may sound. At all.
> It's actually a fairly good system for a less-than-perfect situation.
> Unfortunately, there is a small percentage of people who have to wait in
> limbo without an assigned school for much longer than is healthy - but let's
> try to do everything possible to avoid that.
> 
> But more about that in our meeting :-).
> 
> I want to make sure we pick a date that works for as many people as possible
> - or dare I say everybody. Could you please let me know what weekday
> evenings would NOT work for you, between Monday, September 12th, and Friday,
> September 30th? Just so we don't pick that date for an 8pm-10pm meeting. The
> meeting will be at my home in Forest Hill, 5 minute walk from the Forest
> Hill muni station, with plenty of street parking.
> 
> Also, if you want to, send me a list of schools you are interested in
> hearing more about. If you don't know any schools yet, just send me your
> cross streets, and I can look up some schools for you, in advance of our
> meeting. Just to make the discussion as relevant as possible (and be as
> prepared as possible). 
> 
> Also - if you haven't heard about the organization "Parents for Public
> Schools" yet, then check out thiswebsite: http://newsroom.ppssf.org/enrollment-support/round2eventsandremind
> ers. They have absolutely fabulous free workshops about the process that are
> hosted by professionals. Their calendar for upcoming workshops won't come
> out until next month, but consider going to one of those workshops if you
> won't be able to make it to our meeting! 
> 
> Have a great weekend!
> Lucia
> P.S. And by the way, if you know any other twin parents who might be
> interested, but are not part of the club, please feel free to invite. 
> 
> P.P.S. if you are DYING to start the process RIGHT NOW and are looking for
> materials, let me know, I'd be happy to send you stuff to read ahead of
> time.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Sophie Dumont <Sophie.Dumont at ucsf.edu>
> wrote:
>       Hello Lucia,
> 
>       My husband and I are interested in the discussion on the SFUSD
>       public school lottery.  Let us know when it will be and we'll
>       hopefully be able to join!  Thank you so much for organizing!
> 
>       Sophie
> 
> 

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