As you probably know by now, my daughter is one of eight children at PS 321 who is not on the middle school admissions master list. We still don’t know if this means she doesn’t exist as far as the DOE is concerned or if she did get in somewhere.
I’m tired of the long looks, the sad faces, the “what are you going to do?” variety of questions. I hate being the poster child for the situation everyone is just glad they’re not in.
We’ve been calling one of the schools she wants to got to since last Wednesday. I called and the guidance counselor from PS 321 has called.
I have heard her numerous times leave messages on message machines and with secretaries. Nobody calls back. I just put in a call today to the principal. I hope he gets back to me. At this particular school, he’s the only one with the list.
This is getting very frustrating. My daughter seems fine; she’s more patient than I am. She doesn’t know what a tangled bureaucracy the Education Department is. I have assured her that things will work out just fine.
I guess she believes me.
Now I think I should just go to the schools and corner the principals or the guidance counselors.
Where is my daughter going to middle school?
That is unbelievably horrendous. It would be comforting to think that, since you’ve been so ill treated, the bureaucracy will bend over backwards to make amends. I sure hope your kid doesn’t just get scrapings from the bottom of the barrel. I’d do everything I could think of to get action. The Times has had quite a bit of coverage on it, why don’t you try a letter to the editor?