the Great Elementary School Search Begins
Apr. 21st, 2011 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiThe Zweeble is now set up for pre-K, and thus my thoughts turn to 2012, when he'll be starting just plain old k. (That is, unless Judgment Day goes down tonight or the Mayan calendar kills us all next May.)
In our little corner of the world, the way it works is that the county is divided into sections. Those sections are divided into sub-sections. Now, I'm not sure what good the sub-sections do, because--okay, parents research and decide what schools in their section they would like their kid to attend. Then, during the sign-up period, they give the list of their top three (ranked by preference) to the proper authorities, and then the lists are assigned a random number and then they're assigned to schools using some sort of arcane system that I only half-understood, but that involves whether or not the kid has a sibling in the school already and how close you live to it.
This is supposed to replace the whole "school assignment based on street address" method they used to use, but since location factors in, I'm not sure how that works.
(I'm not being sarcastic--I really don't quite get what's going on there. Of course, trying to read it while a squirmy kid is asking you to please watch Ben 10, this is a good part, is not conducive to comprehension.)
Anyway, there are also all these things to consider--the system we have down here of grading schools, the whole IB thing that I don't know a whole lot about (what happened to AP? And, wait, IB elementary school?), a whole plethora of other stuff I just glanced at. Plus there's the fact the web sites are all sort of cluttered and eye-bleedingly bright, and I ended this whole preliminary investigation with a headache.
(I'm wondering if you can do elementary school tours.)
In the end, I think it would be simpler to just send him to college next year ...
In our little corner of the world, the way it works is that the county is divided into sections. Those sections are divided into sub-sections. Now, I'm not sure what good the sub-sections do, because--okay, parents research and decide what schools in their section they would like their kid to attend. Then, during the sign-up period, they give the list of their top three (ranked by preference) to the proper authorities, and then the lists are assigned a random number and then they're assigned to schools using some sort of arcane system that I only half-understood, but that involves whether or not the kid has a sibling in the school already and how close you live to it.
This is supposed to replace the whole "school assignment based on street address" method they used to use, but since location factors in, I'm not sure how that works.
(I'm not being sarcastic--I really don't quite get what's going on there. Of course, trying to read it while a squirmy kid is asking you to please watch Ben 10, this is a good part, is not conducive to comprehension.)
Anyway, there are also all these things to consider--the system we have down here of grading schools, the whole IB thing that I don't know a whole lot about (what happened to AP? And, wait, IB elementary school?), a whole plethora of other stuff I just glanced at. Plus there's the fact the web sites are all sort of cluttered and eye-bleedingly bright, and I ended this whole preliminary investigation with a headache.
(I'm wondering if you can do elementary school tours.)
In the end, I think it would be simpler to just send him to college next year ...
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Date: 2011-04-21 06:41 pm (UTC)