I commented at Diane’s blog to Chiara:
I can’t agree more with what you’ve written.This sentence in particular really struck me:
“It’s a wasteful and dumb advertising arms race, and it’s only going to escalate.”
It has become an advertising agency’s dream. We can’t get away from advertisers, wherever we go–so this would be just another golden opportunity to twist the perception of parents and the public as a whole. It’s all about advertising with flashy lights and colors instead of offering something of substance.
A reader left this comment:
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I worked in the front office of a charter school for two years. We marketed heavily in the neighborhood and would get hundreds of applications for a school that had anywhere from 30-40 seats available in Kindergarten and 0-2 seats per class available in grades 1 and up. I remember the crestfallen looks on parents’ faces when it was announced at the admissions lottery that there were no seats open in a class and that the lottery would determine the order of the waiting list.
I once recommended to the principal that we stop taking applications after a certain point. I had two reasons for suggesting this: 1) We were giving families false hope, as anyone other than the first five to ten on the waiting list had no realistic chance of getting in, and 2) We could make better use of the time…
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