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Kindergarten and twins

SallyJean95SallyJean95 member
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I haven't been on here forever but I do have twins!  One boy and one girl.  We have a kindergarten dilemma and I need twin mom feedback. 

They will be going into kindergarten in the fall.  We live in a not desirable school district and through school of choice we have options of where to send them. 

A. The best school district in the state.  They only have a few spots and we just found out my son won the lottery and got in.  Daughter will not get in because they do not grandfather twins and she would have to go to another school for 1 year before she can go to awesome school.  This means two different schools for a year. No buses for school of choice, we'd have to drop off.  Zero chance of getting in to the district in higher grades.   Scale of 1 to 10, this school is a 10.

B. Great school.  Both would have spots guaranteed.  Probably different classrooms but same school.  Pretty good school district but not awesome school above.  Scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest), this school is a 7.  This is where daughter would go for kindergarten if we split schools. 

Both are close but in opposite directions.  What would you do? Stay with the great school and keep them in the same school. Or suck it up and split schools for 1 year and be in awesome school district forever?  If we choose the "7" school to keep them together will we always regreat not splitting schools for a year to be in awesome school district?

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  • Brummy14Brummy14 member
    I'm a big proponent of sending your kids to wherever you feel they'll have the best overall educational experience, so I'd totally split them up for a year (knowing twin #2 was still getting a good education at your second school option), if that guaranteed that they'd both be in the amazeballs school from then on out. Seems like a short-term sacrifice for a GREAT long-term benefit. I wouldn't even hesitate.
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    I would say send them both to the great school.  If the second choice school was a mediocre or poor school, I might consider splitting them up but it just seems like a lot of extra hassle for not much gain, especially if there is no chance of staying in that district for the higher grades.

     

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  • SallyJean95SallyJean95 member
    ballygirl said:
    I would say send them both to the great school.  If the second choice school was a mediocre or poor school, I might consider splitting them up but it just seems like a lot of extra hassle for not much gain, especially if there is no chance of staying in that district for the higher grades.
    once you are in, you are in.  You just can't enter the district say in 2nd grade.  So the only chance to get in is in Kindergarten. 
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  • bunny731bunny731 member
    I would choose A. The year goes fast. We were very close to being in same situation last year.
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  • cadencaden member
    Ooooh tough choice. What makes A school better than B? Are there services A provides that are unavailable at B? Or are we just talking about test scores? Because if it's something like test scores I think your kids will do just fine at B since the home environment will make up for a lot of that difference. If A offers a lot more then I'd probably go with that.
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  • SallyJean95SallyJean95 member
    edited April 2014
    MrsLee04 said:
    I lean towards option B. 

    I'd only consider option A if it was 100% guaranteed that both kids would be in by 1st grade.  I'm confused, though.....if your son had to win a lottery to get in for K, then how can your daughter just be automatically in for 1st grade?  The lottery system schools I know of have the lottery for every grade (for new students) so there would be no automatic spot for 1st grade. 

    If a soc child gets in (lottery), then their siblings in the same household are given a spot after a year in. Usually this isn't a big deal because kids are usually spaced a year apart. The first kid has to complete a year in the district for any sibling to get in. Where this sucks is with twins, we must wait a year. And the 2nd sibling must have an open spot available in that grade. This year there were 12 first grade spots. My daughter would automatically get one of those spots but only after my son was there for a year. It sucks. This year there were 50 kindergarten spots available. 35 were already taken with siblings of prior soc kids. So there were only 15 spots for the lottery. There were 25 first grade spots but 13 were already used by siblings of prior soc kids. So only 12 were lottery spots. I hope this makes sense. This district only does k and1st grade soc and it's always been 25-50 spots and they don't see that changing in the next few years based on projections.
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