"kindergarten connect" conspiracy theories
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2013 AT 1:49PM
It is beginning.I am starting to hear the inevitable creative, crazy, uninformed ways to strategise the Kindergarten Connect process to totally mess up the ranking of your potential kindergarten options. Can we all stop and take a breath? If the city wanted to create an elaborate, passive-aggressive algorithm that was designed to screw you, why would they go to all this trouble? Couldn't they just do that on their own? Frankly, if they were that diabolically dedicated to ruining your life, the whole city would run way better. See this for what it is - a very blunt instrument that assigns seats with certain priorities by random. Do you feel lucky? The vast majority of zoned kids will have a seat in their zoned schools if they want them. Most of you looking for out of zone seats will be lucky if you just keep your heads and stay in the game until the last wait list placements are made.
I have seen this same algorithm in its many forms (prek, middle school, high school) and it is very consistent. What I am giving you is not my opinion - it is what I know to be true after years of study. Rank schools that may have a seat for you* in the order that you like them. You will be placed in the school that you have ranked the highest that has room when you are plucked from the random pile. If your list contains a large number of schools
