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  • [-]When do sibling applicants hear about kindergarten? Not sure that my ds will get in and very nervous.

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    11.20.09, 05:20 PM [ Flag ]

    • If you applied through Early Notification then you hear sometime in December or January. If you're so nervous, what's the matter? Why can't you talk candidly with the AD. If you're nervous, maybe the school isn't the right fit for the next child. I have three dc in three different schools. Sure it's a lot of work, but I care that they have the right place for themselves. I get so annoyed with selfish parents who just want expedience and don't look at other schools for second, third and fourth kids. Did you even bother to apply to another school or two? Take the tour?

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      11.20.09, 05:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • I hear that schools are trying to admit more only children from older parents so they won't have so many difficult sibling cases.

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        11.20.09, 05:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • The dumbest kids in my ds class are siblings. Schools should take kids who merit the spots and not stupid siblings. Would help for development too.

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          11.20.09, 05:40 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • Dinging sibs is surely *not* good for development! It just makes families angry.

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            11.20.09, 05:44 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • Yes, it does not do much for community spirit...

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              11.20.09, 05:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

              • Better to be dinged at the start than counseled out after a few years.

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                11.20.09, 05:47 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

                • I highly doubt many of the dinged sibs at most of these schools would end up counseled out. Maybe they'd be average or below average students, but they'd probably do just as well as many of the kids there. I really think it's more about making room for new kids they really want.

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                  11.20.09, 05:50 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

                • Our #3 was dinged, with 99erbs, 2nd round hunter scores, and with what our psd was such a good school report, she did not think it was worth applying elsewhere. So we didn't, and ended up having to scramble. Sometimes there is just not enough space, we were not big donors, just kind of unimportant people.

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                  11.20.09, 05:51 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

                  • OMG I can't even imagine how upset you must have been, assuming this post is real (and I really want to believe it isn't).

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                    11.20.09, 05:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

                    • Sadly, it is real, and while dc is very happy now at another school, I feel unwelcome at the school now, and I used to be very involved. I feel like they do not like us, and it is hurtful for younger one to now come along to school functions etc. Raises questions I do not want him to deal with at such a young age.

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                      11.20.09, 05:55 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

                      • wow... that is a really awful position that the school put your family in!! I just hope it works out better for your 3rd in the long run. I can totally see how it now colours the experience for you/your elder two DCs too. We are applying out this year with our 1st but your post makes me very nervous for #2/3 in a couple of years!

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                        11.20.09, 08:13 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Sounds like crap. Perhaps you are young with many offspring.

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          11.20.09, 05:43 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • only children from older parents often come with all kind of other issues.

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          11.20.09, 05:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Did you even....why so aggressive?

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        11.20.09, 05:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • There are so many sibs in my ds class that there is barely room for any new families in the school. Agree that sibs tend to be the weakest in the class and the parents get really clannish.

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        11.20.09, 05:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

  • [-]Does anyone else her have a problem with a certain singer LB who sings about spaghetti?

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    11.20.09, 05:16 PM [ Flag ]

    • Cannot stand her. She is such a talentless wannabee, and deeply boring.

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      11.20.09, 05:17 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Huh???

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      11.20.09, 05:21 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • When my dd was born, my mother ran out and bought the CD and memorized the songs. I had to sit in the back of my parents minivan as they drove around singing that spaghetti song at the top of their lungs. My dd was 12w at the time and really didn't give a hoot, it really was one of the most annoying experiences I have had in the past few years.

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      11.20.09, 05:22 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • She just seems so conceited and smug. Cannot bear her. She is like head of pta at our school.

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      11.20.09, 05:23 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I love her! -a dh

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      11.20.09, 06:04 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Please tell me who/what you're talking about.

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      11.20.09, 06:09 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • um, what are we talking about here? a singer we won't name who sings about pasta and is the head of a PTA? only in NY folks

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      11.20.09, 06:12 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • UB is the ONLY place I have ever heard of this singer. I think someone on here is obsessed with her.

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      11.20.09, 06:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • she is all over nickjr. you probably do know her...

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        11.20.09, 06:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • She used to be on the Nick music fillers between shows alot. (May still be my kids are older.)

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        11.20.09, 06:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • ITTTA!! I'm convinced it's either LB herself or her publicist that keeps posting these innane questions. The only problem with that they usually end up in a flamefest of how boring and banal her music is... probably NOT the type of feedback they would like. But I guess in that line of biz, any publicity is good publicity?! FWIW - my kids immediately ask us to turn the channel when Berkner comes on Nick, for which DH and I are all too eager to comply!! Cannot STAND her "music"

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        11.20.09, 08:06 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • I wouldn't mind it so much if she was not such a focal point of all her videos. Cannot bear to see her forced prancing.

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          11.20.09, 08:37 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Wasn't there some movie/TV show where Emma Thompson played a similarly annoying singer? Can't remember what it was but it was hilarious. I always preferred Raffi myself or heck--how about just regular music?

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      11.20.09, 07:14 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • A Frasier episode. Emma Thompson played Nanny something, Frasier's ex-wife, whom nobody including Lilith knew about. It was hilarious.

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        11.20.09, 07:51 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Don't know how I feel about her as a talent or as a person, but DC and I love the Goldfish song - "Wait a minute; we're fish. We can't ride bicycles."

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      11.20.09, 07:37 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • this is funny. She irritates me but someone on UB is really bothered by her because you post this every other day or so! Wonder if this thread will disappear...

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      11.20.09, 08:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • First experience with her was free concert in C.park where every person with a dc from NJ and every borough and every state in the union east of the mississippi came. My ds hated it, me too. Nails on the blackboard. Screechy, whiny, nasal and banal.

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        11.21.09, 01:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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