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School open enrollment / statewide enrollment options questions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sweet, thanks for the advice re: asking the school for application numbers and checking into special ed accommodations! (We don't anticipate our son will have an IEP, but great consideration.)

School open enrollment / statewide enrollment options questions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks. Yeah, I'd be happy to send my kids to MPS, and that is a possibility, but my wife has bad blood with a few MPS employees in leadership positions, so she has some reluctance to enroll our kids there. I do understand there are some very nice schools in the district, and we're both reasonably satisfied products of regular public school districts (i.e., non-charter--not sure if that even existed when we were kids), so I do endorse this as well.

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School open enrollment / statewide enrollment options questions (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi everyone! Our family is moving back to MN in a few months, and we are starting the process of looking into schools. Our son will be 5 next year and will be starting kindergarten in 2026. He's our oldest, so this is our first rodeo. We're looking into Nova Classical Academy (Highland Park) and Math & Science Academy (Woodbury).

Our questions:

  1. How hard is it to get into these schools for kindergarten? (We are not school staff members, and our child doesn't have a sibling already enrolled in the school.) We realize that MSA's elementary school is just now being built, and 2026-2027 is the first year they're enrolling for kindergarten.
  2. Is there anything we can do to be more competitive for acceptance to either school? Or is it literally just a random lottery? Does it matter when we apply for the lottery, as long as it's within the enrollment window? (Our children don't appear to be "protected class students" as defined by MDE.)
  3. Any experience with either of these schools? We welcome all feedback as we know nothing! Especially if you have a child with mild ASD, we'd love your input.

Thank you so much!

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Daycare feedback near SE Minneapolis? (lemmy.world)
 

Hi everyone! My wife and I have two kids under 4 and are searching for daycare facilities within ~five miles of the Minnehaha Falls area (SE Minneapolis).

We are currently considering The Pillars Child Care, Mis Amigos (St. Paul), Círculo de Amigos, and Casa de Corazón (Highland Park).

We're moving back to Minneapolis this June, so we're doing the daycare search from Arizona, and it's been very hard to get an accurate sense of each school from so far away. So, if you have any feedback about any of these schools, good, bad, or ugly, I'd be greatly appreciative of your input and experiences.

Thank you in advance!

P.S. We're open to feedback about other facilities as well, but we've already bypassed quite a few places based on concerning DHS reports. Also, we aren't specifically seeking Spanish immersion, that just happens to be the program of some good candidates.