Father's Day Follow-Up
First, Happy Papa's Day, Dads -- hope your families are treating you well, soggy weather notwithstanding.
On the g+t front, one commenter to the blog either got a letter today, Sunday, or found one in her mailbox that might have been left there yesterday. Another commenter was grateful for the kindness of neighbors (pace, Tennessee Williams), when a friend from her old building found a DOE letter with her address. This gives rise to an urgent question: If a family doesn't receive a letter, or if the hand-delivery goes awry (as above), who should be contacted? We are waiting for direct instruction and specific contact information from the DOE, and hope that very few readers will actually need it.
We're also curious as to why the letters were hand-delivered, and -- of course -- have asked for amplification. We'll report what we learn; in the meanwhile, please keep in touch, as we and parents citywide are grateful for on-the-ground reports, as they come in.
District 1 parents waiting for lottery outcomes, we've heard that letters went out this weekend. Perhaps someone's had news already? If so, let us know.
District 2, still in the land o' waiting limbo. We'll report more as we learn it.
26 comments:
I am a parent in district 3 still waiting and hoping for my letter today. It will be very frustrating if they mailed some or are hand delivering some more tomorrow and we don't get ours until tomorrow night when we come home from work and have only 4 days to resons. I would love to speak to a live person at DOE tomorrow if we have not heard by then. Please let us know if you find out a contact name.
thanks!
working on DOE contact info for follow-up questions, will post whenever I have specific info. sorry to ask you to wait! but hope you either have news soon -- or that I have solid contact information to forward.
Does anyone know how many children received spots at Anderson? We heard there will not be a waitlist. If so, how will any spots that are not accepted be filled (at Anderson or anywhere else)?
Oh... My hubby blamed me for loosing the letter - I emptied the mail box yesterday and the letter wasn't there, but this morning he found it near our door - we thought I dropped it and neighbors found it.. So it actually was hand-delivery... Anyway, it had good news for us - our son got into the first-choice school!
Another whacky story here. At 12:30pm today, I happened to notice a DOE envelope on our doorman's desk. He said it was for us, and said it had gotten mixed up into another resident's mail. That resident apparently brought our letter down to the doorman this morning. But the envelope is not postmarked and appears to have been hand delivered (hand deliveries typically go only to the doorman, not mailboxes). Anyway, the wait is over!
I am in District-3, and no news yet. Is there Sunday delivery?
yes they are delivering Sunday. If people could list score rank and school acceptance would be appreciated ( no other information. Necessary
Glad to know letters are arriving today -- wow, quite an effort by the DOE. (No official word yet on why they opted for hand-delivery.)
But to the poster above, asking for score rank and school acceptance info, a gentle word of caution -- some may not wish to disclose this info, and no one, in any circumstance, should take this as a direction from Insideschools.
so, why are some people getting their letters and not others? is it going by top scores down? and if so, what is the logic in that? it's not like they are waiting for a reply from a 99 to offer a space to a 97....so, why does it seem so sporadic? any ideas?
I am the 12:08 poster in district 3 and I am still waiting and getting increasingly frustrated as I watch everyone else report hearing from the DOE. Is there any more information on whom to call to find out where your letter is? thanks!
It is definitely not in order of score -- my daughter got a 99 and didn't yet get a letter, and her friend with a 90 got hers today.
we are still waiting, too, even though we read that other people in Queens have heard. Perhaps some were mailed on Friday and the others were hand-delivered? I'm wondering if it was alphabetical.
I posted elsewhere, too - but we are district 15 with 99% score - were home most of the day yesterday and no letter yet (as of 7pm Sunday). Most frustrating 2 days in recent memory...
another 99 in D15 with no letter. Early part of alphabet, too, so I doubt it's alphabetical. It's making me nuts. I wish the DOE could have at least given information on their website regarding the delivery method. I've been wondering whether they put some in the mail late Friday and hand-delviered the rest. No proof, just a theory for why we have no letter.
We live in Queens- district 25. Our letter was hand delivered on Saturday .Somebody else in our Bldg. also received theirs but another family I know a few blocks away did not get theirs.
Hi Helen-
It is your first poster of the day again to say that I still have not heard anything. I am assuming that you had no better luck on a Sunday than I did tracking down a live DOE person, but please, please see if you can get us some contact information for tomorrow. I work full time and won't learn anything by mail until tomorrow evening at the earliest. I would love to be able to learn my placement via email, fax, phone etc. if possible.
thanks!
Evening greetings, and thanks for staying with the blog -- have not had word today from the DOE but surely will bright and early tomorrow, and will post contact information for follow-ups, potentially AWOL letters, etc., as soon as I have it. Any other Sunday hand-deliveries? Curious to know which neighborhoods were covered...
We have received no letter yet in Queens. I was wondering if they hand-delivered letters that had not gone out by Friday pickup time, others that made the cut-off mailed regularly.
Hoping to get it tomorrow by mail.
I have not received letters for either of my 2 kids yet, and am very, very frustrated. I had an extremely difficult time getting one of my kids' test results (went to the wrong address) and now this.
D2 in Chelsea. We were away for the weekend and don't have a doorman. No letter yet. So frustrating. Would love to know who to call tomorrow.
Also if they can give a breakout of scores and acceptances would be nice to see. Did any non-sib, non-99s get Nest?
I have similar situation as the family who thought they dropped the letter when getting the mail on Saturday. My husband got the mail and said there was nothing. As I arrived home from church on Sunday I decided to check my mailbox again. And what do you know. A letter. I tried to blame my husband for not seeing it but now I realize that it too was hand delivered. I live in Staten Island so they had to come a long way to hand deliver it but Thank God they did and it was with a congratulations. My son got his first choice.
We're also in District 10. We received hand-delivered letter yesterday in Central Riverdale. K-bound son placed in second-choice, Nest. (But,I admit, after a nearly-overnight discussion between myself and my husband, we will be turning it down and our son will go to PS 24. Since submitting our form, we've had second thoughts about the commute and the inability of being able to really be a part of Nest's community and
what it would mean to our family. Raised voices and everything, we don't need to have relationship and family issues over Nest!! We didn't mean to be "those parents" who turn down a request, but here we are...). I say this just in case anyone is following up about a waiting-list.
Sorry, central Riverdale poster: ds had a 99, received 2nd choice.
We have twins, one of which tested in to tAg and the other did not. We got a TAG letter this morning, but also a call from the lottery school we applied to on Friday. I think they were trying to alert as many parents as they could to save themselves having to be here after the school year was over for parents to register. Still no letter about that. Maybe tomorrow? Who knows. I have ZERO faith in this process.
I haven't seen any mention of Lower Lab -- our daughter got a 99 and it was our 3rd choice. We hadn't toured it, but after poking around a little online it sounds really interesting. Does anyone who did tour Lower Lab know anything about it, have any thoughts positive or negative?? Thx in advance.
Re: PS 111
I toured the school (total, maybe 7 parents) back in May. It's a K-8 school with the upper school having a separate entrance, etc.
The principal used to be the Asst Principal (AP) at PS 116 (G&T school at 32nd st). She joined the school around 2000 as an AP, and became principal about 3-4 yrs ago.
The physical facilities are very nice with playgrounds, auditoriums, gyms, etc. Outdoor recess every day, something many of us dream about for our DC.
The school has a mixed population, but is mostly hispanic, with an arab population. There are parents from queens that bring their kids in every day and the school does not serve pork in the cafeteria. It's a school that has free lunch for all the children and class sizes appear to be around 20 kids or less. There is free afterschool programs until 6pm (I believe) and they have corporate programs with NYTimes and Time Warner.
There are 3 or so classes per grade, with 1 being special needs (approx.)
There appears to be plenty of room for G&T classes. With parental support, I believe you could be very happy with the outcome.
When we toured, the school was very calm and orderly. A class of 4th graders (or 5th graders) was waiting quietly in the hallway.
The school is near the 57th Street NRQW trains (exit at the rear of the train at 55th st) or C E at 50th St or 1, 9 at 50th St.
Good luck and I hope this helps. If you have specific questions, I'll try to respond.
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