Comments on: Oakland’s School Options deadline is here

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:49:54 +0000

Our home received a robo-call from OUSD, I think it was yesterday informing us of the options deadline. Our kid is already in an OUSD high school, and we have no elementary or middle school age kids, rising or otherwise.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:23:43 +0000

My 8th grader brought the forms home from school, and we submitted them at the middle school.

I remember a whole lot more advertising/publicizing when he was in his last year of elementary and we were considering middle school choices. Just a guess, but maybe OUSD doesn’t want to, or can’t, spend much after all the budget cuts in the past few years.

That doesn’t make it easy for parents/families, but it seems like an understandable situation.

By: AC Mom

AC Mom — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:37:22 +0000

In previous years there were advertisements on the sides of buses altering parents of the deadline and that OUSD would be holding an options fair to inform the students and parents of their school choices, but this year I have not seen any such advertisements. I am not sure that there was even an options fair, but I must admit I was not on the lookout as I had made my school choices a while ago. Beyond that I have never seen any other forms of outreach intended to notify parents that it was time to enroll their child in K, or that this was the window in which one could apply for placement in another school.

Also, you can apply any OUSD school site; Katy provided a lilnk to the forms and instructions above. I dropped my forms off at my child’s intended school.

By: wdcrachel

wdcrachel — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:16:12 +0000

How does this school system advertise this to ensure all students/parents/families can take advantage of? Are there also opportunities at school sites?