A lot of fifth grade parents wait for the first middle school fair, which is usually in October, to make appointments for middle school tours but the truth is the time to call the schools is NOW.
A friend called MS 51 yesterday and she was 89th on a list. The school doesn know the dates of the tours yet but said they would call her back.
She’s #89. Yeesh.
Their phone number: (718) 369-7603
Year ago, when I went to the middle school fair, a lot of the tours were already filled up. I had to wait until January to see MS 51 that year. And that’s pretty late.
Another friend called Brooklyn Collaborative and they told her to call back — they aren’t eady to take names. She said she spoke to a very nice woman.
New Voices is taking calls and you can get an appointment for a tour if I remember what my friend told me correctly. It can’t hurt to call Upper Carroll (on Dean Street) and the Urban Assembly of Arts and Letters.
Suffice it to say, everyone is a little fatutzed about the whole thing. I’ve had a million conversations about middle school and it’s only the first week of school.
You can’t start getting agitated too early, I guess.
My son is a student at Collaborative Studies so I get emails from both the New School and BCS. Last week’s email included information about middle school. Seems that the city is standardizing the process and applications will be issued in January with a return in February. Middle schools are setting up tours now but will be doing them closer to the application dates as well.