Seattle High Schools Article
A reporter at Seattle Metropolitan magazine is looking for parents who might want to contribute to a story. He's looking for parents who
- successfully managed to get their student into a high school outside of their assignment area
- whose child went to a private middle school but decided to go public for high school
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Let's also remember that there may be as few as three attendance area high schools that were over-subscribed - Garfield, Roosevelt, and Ballard. So if you wanted to go to any of the other nine attendance area high schools - Sealth, West Seattle, Rainier Beach, Franklin, Hale, or Ingraham - you gained entry upon request.
So how hard is it for most folks to get their school of choice? Not hard at all. Most of them chose to accept assignment to their attendance area school or easily gained access to one of nine other schools (or The Center School or STEM or The NOVA Project).
How hard is it to negotiate the bureaucracy? Well, if you're involved enough to know that you don't want your child to attend their default assignment attendance area school, then you're already in a self-selected group.
Imagine this. You go to lunch with a bunch of friends to a place that is famous for their hamburgers. Everybody looks at the menu and then the waiter goes around the table taking orders. "Hamburger" "Hamburger" "Hamburger" "Hamburger" your friends say. You, however, don't want the hamburger; you want teriyaki chicken. "Sorry," the waiter says, "we're out of the teriyaki chicken." "Okay, then," you reply, "I'll have the reuben".
Was that so hard? I don't think so.
SPS adopts "Discovering" 6/5/09 loses Appeal of the crappy math selection 2/4/10 .... but appeals to WA Appeals court on 3/3/10 ...
Discovering enters second year of use and "the child" mentioned above enters private high school.
I didn't want to believe this could be true, but yesterday a friend told me about a kid who had been assigned to Ballard just getting into RHS off the wait list. That would be consistent with the above system (ten extra kids showed up with RHS area addresses, so the Ballard neighborhood kid had to be admitted as well.) Can anyone out there confirm this scenario?