UrbanBaby

06.15.08, 08:29 AM NY Schools
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I find it very strange that the DOE is hand-delivering these letters all over the 5 boroughs. [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
NY Schools 06.15.08, 08:29 AM Flag

Dear UrbanBaby community,

Thank you so much for being a valued member of the UrbanBaby community. We wanted to inform you that we are shutting down the site on July 6th. We are grateful for your participation and support that has helped make UrbanBaby such an important resource to parents for many years.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at urbanbaby-support@cbsinteractive.com.

Thanks so much,

UrbanBaby Support

There must be some reason for it. I think they only delivered to people who applied to A and N as their first choice. They must be desperately trying to meet some sort of deadline with the gen. ed. Also, the deadline for responding is June 20 which is 4 days away! Does not leave much time to mail the response via mail. I wonder if they will be delivering on Sunday as well. Such a waste of resources and so inefective! [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 08:33 AM Flag

OP: 99, with A as first choice, no letter yet. I hope they will be delivering today. Otherwise, I'll have to wait until Monday evening, which seems too far away! [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 08:35 AM Flag

We got our letter yesterday and didn't have A or N as one of our choices. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 08:42 AM Flag

I'm in Bklyn and ds got a 92 and we only applied to our disrict G&T- we got out letter yesterday at 9am [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 08:46 AM Flag

99 with N as first choice and no letter. there goes your theory. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 08:49 AM Flag

the DOE accepts a reply by e-mail [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 09:30 AM Flag

Maybe they are verifying address too. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 10:38 AM Flag

Doubtful... the delivery guy told me he was just an employee of a vendor that the DOE outsourced to. He didn't check to see if I really had a K-aged child living here. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 11:25 AM Flag

Just saw that someone had one hand delivered in d10. I'll try to post the link... [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 09:03 AM Flag

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gifted_and_Talented_NYC/ [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 09:04 AM Flag

Frankly I think it's a colossal waste of money. Imagine the difference that could make in some schools... all the art supplies it could buy or even how many district G&T teachers it could send for professional development. I know I was eager to hear but if the DOE had just been a little more transparent and said they went out in the mail Friday afternoon so expect them in the next 2 or 3 days that would have been enough and would have released many of us to enjoy our weekend. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 10:43 AM Flag

This is another example of how far the DOE will go to please a certain demographic. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 11:07 AM Flag

np: I think it was done because they had a lot of public outrage about the screw-ups on the middle school and preK process. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 11:09 AM Flag

OP: You don't think that spending money this way will cause equal outrage? I'd sure like to hear the rational behind the decision to have them hand delivered. Maybe they ticked off their usual vendor for preparing mail during the middle school muddle and couldn't find a new vendor in time [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 11:23 AM Flag

I hope the newspapers' education reporters are checking UB and/or insideschools.org [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 11:31 AM Flag

At least gas prices are at an all-time low! [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.15.08, 11:09 AM Flag