Parents are hoping that the NYC Department of Education really did mail out the middle school letters on Friday May 30, as they told school officials they would.

After months of waiting the middle school letters could be in your mailbox as early as today. Woo Hoo. Imagine knowing where your fifth grader will be going to school next year. Around here we’ve tried to put 6th grade out of our minds.

Sixth grade? What’s that?

The fifth graders at PS 321 are in senior mode. Next week they’ve got field day and a big trip to a historical site upstate. They’ll even be getting their fifth grade t-shirt with every kid’s signature on it. Soon they’ll be getting their yearbook.

It’s the end of elementary school and they know it. But they still don’t know what they’re doing next year.

I heard that a friend’s son received an acceptance letter from NEST (New Explorations in Science and Technology) a middle school on the Lower East Side.

I know that some schools do their own admissions and manage to avoid the big computer at the DOE. NEST must be one of them. Did you ever think that getting into middle school would be like getting into college?