It’s May 21 and public school parents with kids in fifth grade STILL don’t know where their kids are going to public middle school next year.

This is really stressing out the parents. It’s also stressing out the kids who are dealing with the end of elementary school but still don’t know where they’re going next year.

It’s nail biting time for parents who are hearing all kinds of rumors and getting worried that their kids won’t get into their first or second choice schools.

Some school like the Institute for Collaborative Education (ICE) have their own admission schedules. ICE has a rolling admissions policy with an early decision option. So those who applied heard rather quickly as to whether they got in or not.

They’re the lucky ones.

In District 15 in Park Slope it seems that just about everyone wants to get into the same three or four schools. How are things going to play out?

How did we get into this mess? This year, the DOE did a partial revamping of the admissions system and the application were due two months later than usual.

What we didn’t know is that the DOE wouldn’t be telling us until late May or even June. Will the kids know by the time they attend their fifth grade graduations in late June?