Placement Office List of Schools

2kidsnoanswers
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:41:54 +0000

^^ WOW, mhmm, the horse-trading is something I had not considered. Would this ‘trading’ take place before admissions decisions are sent to the family, or after? If the placement office just tries to influence us after schools send out decisions, I think I can handle that.

But if the horse trading goes on as the schools decide whether or not to accept my child, that is really troublesome. It scares me to think that the placement officer might do the best for the class overall, not necessarily for each student.

Does it really happen that the placement officer might say to school X, “Ok, turn 2kids’ kid down, since I know he’s going to be accepted at school Y, but I need you to accept this other kid at our school instead.” We would never know the difference, and maybe it was school X that would have been best for my son!