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Three-year-old Isabelle Lenox of Mission wore her tiger costume to Saturday’s Junior Bug Club Halloween Party held at Save-On-Foods.
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School sign up rules may be altered Mission school trustees want to eliminate registration line ups Carol Aun MISSION RECORD
School district registration changes could help eliminate long lineups and give everyone a fair chance to register for a school of choice, said a board trustee. Currently, parents can queue up for hours, and even days, to increase their chances of getting their child into a school of choice, two or which are offered in Mission — a traditional model
at Hillside elementary, and an arts-based curriculum at Edwin S. Richards. French Immersion is offered at Christine Morrison and Mission Central. The current system isn’t fair to single parents or those who can’t take time away from work to camp out, said trustee Jim Taylor, who is examining Langley’s model. There, parents can sign up their child for a school as soon as they
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have a birth certificate, Taylor explained. “This started 25 years ago with their fundamental school, which is equivalent to a traditional school. The idea is it saves line ups.� Early registration also helps the school district plan for classes. Children with siblings already in the school will be admitted first, followed by students who registered earliest. Parents determined to get their
child in a certain school, will sign up right away, and someone who’s less dedicated will sign up later, Taylor noted. “The further in advance people think about it, the better chance they have of getting in.� Those who don’t get in receive a phone call and will be given a choice to stay on the list, said Taylor, who suspects there will still be a lineup in the first year. Alternatively, parents can pre-reg-
ister their child on sign up day in a lottery system and district staff can randomly draw names until classes are full. Hillside Traditional Academy is taking advance registrations and children beginning school in 2018 are already on the roster. Open registrations started at the school district office this past spring because the board wanted to see if a traditional school
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