The interview letters for New Voices, MS 51, and Math and Science went out this week to those students who put those schools as their first or second choices on the middle school applications.

I didn’t find out until yesterday that OSFO didn’t get any letters. In fact, I just found out yesterday that the letters went out at all.

Luckily I ran into another parent who’s child didn’t get any letters. That’s when I realized that there was a problem. Immediately, I went to the guidance counselor at PS 321 and she said there was a computer glitch and that’s why OSFO wasn’t on the list at her first or second choice schools.

Apparently the DOE has a new database. Maybe that was part of the problem. The guidance counselor said she’s sure there are other kids who might not be in the database. Hopefully their teachers or parents will figure out that they didn’t get any letters.

If you are applying to a school that requires an interview and you didn’t get a letter this week, talk to your child’s teacher or the guidance counselor at your school!!!

PS 321’s guidance counselor spent more than an hour trying to rectify the problem. Talk about red tape. She had to make so many phone calls and had to wait on so many calls on hold. I was amazed that both she and I kept our cool.

We did resolve the problem with MS 51. The problem with New Voices should be resolved soon.