SFUSD Round 1 Enrollment Comes To An End
Today is the deadline for submitting your child's round 1 enrollment application for the 2007-2008 school year. We have not talked that much about the enrollment season here because, frankly, the whole process seems to be running very smoothly. The process has been relatively unchanged in recent years, which allows more knowledge about the process to build in the community. The staff at EPC is, from all reports that I hear, doing an excellent job of assisting applicants. And most of all, the volunteers at SF Parents for Public Schools have been doing a great job assembling resources, conducting meetings, and providing help to those families making applications.
Through the grapevine I hear that PPS is conducting some follow up research on the enrollment process. The following was sent to PPS members. I assume the meeting is for members only&mdashbut if you want to attend then go ahead and join:
Through the grapevine I hear that PPS is conducting some follow up research on the enrollment process. The following was sent to PPS members. I assume the meeting is for members only&mdashbut if you want to attend then go ahead and join:
Student Assignment Feedback -- a few more meetingsCongratulations to everyone who has participated in Round 1. It may seem like a torturous ordeal, but the burden of shopping for your child's school is a small price to pay for having a variety of interesing options to choose from. Good luck!
Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:30 pm (PST)
Dear Members:
January is the last opportunity you will have to give feedback about the student assignment process and share what is meaningful for you when choosing schools. Everyone's input is important!
Please join us for a conversation about schools in San Francisco. We have scheduled several community engagement meetings over the next two weeks, mostly at private residences, so we're not posting the times and locations. However, if you are interested in participating, please contact us at info@.... We have meetings scheduled on most days and many evenings, and we can probably find one that is convenient for you.
Or, join us at Parents for Public Schools on Tuesday, January 30 from 10-11:30 am (in English) at the PPS-SF Office -- 9 Silliman St, # 6 (@ San Bruno). Please let us know you are coming and tells us if you need childcare.
These input conversations are meaningful and enlightening. Make sure your voice is heard!
To learn more about this process or to download a flyer in English, Spanish and Chinese, go to http://www.ppssf.org/html/student_assignment.html
_______ _______
Program Manager
Parents for Public Schools
9 Silliman Street, Suite 6
San Francisco, CA 94134
415-468-7077 www.ppssf.org
3 Comments:
Small price to pay? I have participated in this wonderful process choosing a high school for my son for three years in the row, and every year the choice I got from SFUSD was exactly the same - Mission High, which was never on the list of schools that I submitted. Do you know what price I have to pay? Four years of private school tuition of $20K plus a year!
I'm sorry if I trivialized the fate of families such as yours. I certainly know the stakes are high.
Did you also go through the Round 2 process each year? I know the options are fewer for High School than they are for MS or ES enrollment, but I would have thought that you could have found some other placement option beside Mission. Galileo? CAT? Wallenberg? Certainly four years ago Galileo was less popular.
Thank you for your reply. Yes, it is useless to talk about my experience 4 years ago, but the truth is that big problems with current assignment system become apparent when you get to the High School level. Ppssf web site misinforms parents saying things like:
Any school with more applicants than openings is going to have to pick some and reject others. SFUSD schools (except for Lowell and School of the Arts) do that by lottery.
Lottery is not ideal, but at a minimum, it gives every child an equal chance. It does not take PhD in statistics to figure out the profile of an applicant for whom the index would be the most unfavorable. Interesting enough, that is exactly the population segment that is shrinking fast at SFUSD. But when it comes to declining enrollment question, it is much more useful to blame high property values in SF (never mind those people move to Marin, Peninsula, Walnut Creek, etc., where property values are about the same), high cost of living (never mind 30% of kids in SF go to private schools, highest percent in the nation), charter schools and other scary monsters. We all love the school assignment process.
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