The current policy in place for the full day kindergarten lottery process which results in the splitting of siblings and the major inconvienence on parents having multiple children attending different schools needs to be changed. This current policy makes it extremely difficult for parents needing to return to work during these hard economic times. Unfairly the Hood and Little school are only alloted 1 full day kindergarten each where the batchelder currently has 2.
We are asking for your support to remedy this policy to keep our children together and to avoid unneccessary struggles that our 5 year olds will have to face. Even if you don't have a child entering kindergarten or you are not effected by this current policy you may know someone who is.
Proposed School Policy:
The schools will do everything in their power to keep siblings together in the same school. Specifically in reference to kindergarten; when there are enough spaces for all children who want full day to receive full day kindergarten, we will first place children with older siblings in elementary school into their "home school", we will have a lottery for the remainder of children for location of the kindergarten class.
If you feel that the above policy is something that you would support please sign this petition so that we can bring it in front of the school committee.
Thank you in advance for you support.
Marcia Good and Samantha Miller
Updates
May 10, 2010
I am currently gathering stories from families who have been split across schools to present to the district leadership. Email your own experience with this policy to the school committee members today. Persistence is the only way we force them to address this lottery system.
May 10, 2010
The momentum behind this change is undeniable and it proves that families in our district are tired of being split apart. Take this link and email it directly to the school committee members to make sure they see our growing demand for a fair lottery policy.
6 Comments
Ridiculous that they dont prioritize keeping siblings in the same building. Fix this now.
Hope this changes soon. its really hard on the 5 year olds being separated from their older brothers and sisters.
My kids go to Hood and we went through this stress last year. It is totally unfair to split families up like this.
Total mess. how are we supposed to work and get kids to two schools at once???
Whatever makes it easier for families. The way its set up now is just broken.
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The current policy in place for the full day kindergarten lottery process which results in the splitting of siblings and the major inconvienence on parents having multiple children attending different schools needs to be changed. This current policy makes it extremely difficult for parents needing to return to work during these hard economic times. Unfairly the Hood and Little school are only alloted 1 full day kindergarten each where the batchelder currently has 2.
We are asking for your support to remedy this policy to keep our children together and to avoid unneccessary struggles that our 5 year olds will have to face. Even if you don't have a child entering kindergarten or you are not effected by this current policy you may know someone who is.
Proposed School Policy:
The schools will do everything in their power to keep siblings together in the same school. Specifically in reference to kindergarten; when there are enough spaces for all children who want full day to receive full day kindergarten, we will first place children with older siblings in elementary school into their "home school", we will have a lottery for the remainder of children for location of the kindergarten class.
If you feel that the above policy is something that you would support please sign this petition so that we can bring it in front of the school committee.
Thank you in advance for you support.
Marcia Good and Samantha Miller
Updates
May 10, 2010
I am currently gathering stories from families who have been split across schools to present to the district leadership. Email your own experience with this policy to the school committee members today. Persistence is the only way we force them to address this lottery system.
May 10, 2010
The momentum behind this change is undeniable and it proves that families in our district are tired of being split apart. Take this link and email it directly to the school committee members to make sure they see our growing demand for a fair lottery policy.
6 Comments
This is just common sense. trying to coordinate drop offs at two different schools is a nightmare for working parents.
Ridiculous that they dont prioritize keeping siblings in the same building. Fix this now.
Hope this changes soon. its really hard on the 5 year olds being separated from their older brothers and sisters.
My kids go to Hood and we went through this stress last year. It is totally unfair to split families up like this.
Total mess. how are we supposed to work and get kids to two schools at once???
Whatever makes it easier for families. The way its set up now is just broken.
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This is just common sense. trying to coordinate drop offs at two different schools is a nightmare for working parents.