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

[Ruth Anne]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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?

For TK, yes. We have to go through the process all over again for 
Kindergarten. With many more choices.

>
> 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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