Friday, February 17, 2012

What's the Deal With SACS, Part II

According to their website, Shalom Academy has 4 application periods and a lottery on the Monday following each end date.  3 of the 4 application periods have dates on them and the 4th says TBA.  All 3 application periods dates have now come and gone.  Have there been any lotteries?  Does anyone know anything at all?



From the website:
Timeline
APPLICATION PERIODSTART DATEEND DATE
1
Dec. 1Dec. 18, 5:00 pm
2
Dec. 18, 5:01 pmJan. 8 2012, 5:00 pm
3
Jan. 8, 5:01 pmJan. 29, 5:00 pm
4
TBATBA
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Waiting List
Public lotteries are conducted at 8:00 pm on every Monday following the "End Date" of an application period to append to the waiting lists. Time subject to change. Starting in the second year, siblings of applicants who are already attending SACS will participate in the lotteries but will be placed at the top of the waiting list. .......................
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JS (hello) · 684 weeks ago

Really sad imo that this opportunity is being squandered by mismanagement. What a waste.
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JS (hello) · 684 weeks ago

Not this is definitive, but just look at the websites of SACS and He'Atid. Would anyone take SACS seriously? They've had at least 1.5 years to put together a meaningful website with actual information and that's what they came up with. Still no real information on the site. It looks like a fly-by-night organization that's gonna take your money and run. Who would trust their kids to be educated there?
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Yeshiva_Dad 69p · 684 weeks ago

They're not going to take parents money since its a charter school but they might take Teaneck & Englewood money. Otherwise I agree. Time to forget about it. Let's see what the readers think. See new poll.
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guest99 · 684 weeks ago

I can't imagine anyone but the most desperate looking to send their child to this school. After what they did with the teachers last year, no tecacher will work there. It's a complete clusterphuck.
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Miami Al · 684 weeks ago

Dunno, the Ben Gamla charters have awful websites, mediocre support staff in the office, etc., but the main campus had a wait list over 50 deep for Kindergarten last year. It's amazing what getting, for free, 60%-90% of what you were previously paying $15k for will get people to put up with.

I say 60%-90% because you get, for free:

1. Secular Education

2. Hebrew language

3. Kosher meal plan

4. Jewish-sensitive schedule (no school events on Friday night, no critical assignments over Yom Tov, etc)

You do not get:

1. 100% Jewish school

2. Religious instruction at all

3. Religious "environment" (Brachot, etc)

For a secular Israeli that wants their kids to know Hebrew, they probably get 90% of what they want (they'd like a 100% Jewish school), for a MO Jew supplementing religiously, it's more on the order of 60%. For a traditional Orthodox-affiliated Jew without strong ideological interests, it's in the middle.

So people put up with all sorts of nonsense.

That's also why the Administrative rate is SO high at Day School. If you piss off a parent, you could lost 45k/year in tuition. It's worth having an administrator whose sole purpose is to avoid 4-5 families from getting pissed off.

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