Parents whoB次元官网网址檝e wait-listed their children for several years ahead of the annual kindergarten registration at Cloverdale Traditional and South Park elementary schools are learning the wait lists will not be used going forward.
Both schools had been using wait lists with many children on it up to four years.
TheyB次元官网网址檒l be disappointed as School District 61 has chosen to remove the wait list for the 2019 intake, says Bruno Zilli, an outspoken parent who hopes to register his child at Cloverdale, despite learning earlier this year
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The change in the registration process comes in the wake of . Cloverdale and South Park are schools of choice and are run on a district-wide catchment model with themes, and were using different rules from the neighbourhood elementary schools. However, SD61 wants to do away with the years-long existing wait lists.
Instead, both schools will move to a first-come first-serve or lottery model, though that is still to be decided, said SD61 superintendent Piet Langstraat.
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What makes SD61 schools of choice different are their themes. Students at Cloverdale Traditional School (at Quadra and Cloverdale) wear uniforms and follow B次元官网网址渢he traditional values of citizenship, responsibility and respect,B次元官网网址� among other values outlined on its website. Parent volunteers at both Cloverdale and South Park are relied on, including teacher-encouraged class involvement by parents at South Park.
In the mean time, Zilli and his wife are no longer guaranteed a spot for September of 2019 at Cloverdale. However, though theyB次元官网网址檙e guaranteed a spot at their neigbhourhood catchment school of Quadra elementary, theyB次元官网网址檇 much rather be at Cloverdale, a school they liked and will either to line up early in the morning, or even camp overnight, to get in.
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South Park, some may recall, was the sight of previous overnight campouts by parents willing to brave the cold January nights. However, that was for the districtB次元官网网址檚 Nature Kindergarten pilot project which has since come to an end.
SD61 also had early morning line-ups for some of its French immersion programs as recently as four years ago SD61. That was moved to a lottery system.
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