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[quote=zk]yellowS2K

I talked to the wife this morning about the school issue. Apparently some kids have been sent to other schools (Del Mar Hills, Sycamore Ridge), but not (that we’re aware of) since Ocean Air opened. Right now, they seem to be letting some kids from the Ocean Air district go to Sage Canyon. So it would seem that if you live in the Sage Canyon district (which Bridle Ridge is in), then there would be room for your kids at Sage, and that some Ocean Air kids might be displaced in their favor. However, if you don’t sign up for the following school year by February, then they may (or may not) displace your kid in favor of someone not in the district, but who applied in February. They’re somewhat vague about how they decide these things. They also like to under-promise (or maybe I should say they’re extremely careful not to over-promise). It’s different every year, but friends of ours who just moved to Sage Canyon this year got both their kids (K and 4th) into Sage Canyon. And all the kids on our street (which is new) got into Sage.

Good Luck and let me know if you have any questions.[/quote]

Thanks – this is exactly the kind of information we were hoping to get. And it confirms our thought that we should probably act quickly.

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[quote=zk]yellowS2K

I talked to the wife this morning about the school issue. Apparently some kids have been sent to other schools (Del Mar Hills, Sycamore Ridge), but not (that we’re aware of) since Ocean Air opened. Right now, they seem to be letting some kids from the Ocean Air district go to Sage Canyon. So it would seem that if you live in the Sage Canyon district (which Bridle Ridge is in), then there would be room for your kids at Sage, and that some Ocean Air kids might be displaced in their favor. However, if you don’t sign up for the following school year by February, then they may (or may not) displace your kid in favor of someone not in the district, but who applied in February. They’re somewhat vague about how they decide these things. They also like to under-promise (or maybe I should say they’re extremely careful not to over-promise). It’s different every year, but friends of ours who just moved to Sage Canyon this year got both their kids (K and 4th) into Sage Canyon. And all the kids on our street (which is new) got into Sage.

Good Luck and let me know if you have any questions.[/quote]

Thanks – this is exactly the kind of information we were hoping to get. And it confirms our thought that we should probably act quickly.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]yellowS2K

I talked to the wife this morning about the school issue. Apparently some kids have been sent to other schools (Del Mar Hills, Sycamore Ridge), but not (that we’re aware of) since Ocean Air opened. Right now, they seem to be letting some kids from the Ocean Air district go to Sage Canyon. So it would seem that if you live in the Sage Canyon district (which Bridle Ridge is in), then there would be room for your kids at Sage, and that some Ocean Air kids might be displaced in their favor. However, if you don’t sign up for the following school year by February, then they may (or may not) displace your kid in favor of someone not in the district, but who applied in February. They’re somewhat vague about how they decide these things. They also like to under-promise (or maybe I should say they’re extremely careful not to over-promise). It’s different every year, but friends of ours who just moved to Sage Canyon this year got both their kids (K and 4th) into Sage Canyon. And all the kids on our street (which is new) got into Sage.

Good Luck and let me know if you have any questions.[/quote]

Thanks – this is exactly the kind of information we were hoping to get. And it confirms our thought that we should probably act quickly.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]yellowS2K

I talked to the wife this morning about the school issue. Apparently some kids have been sent to other schools (Del Mar Hills, Sycamore Ridge), but not (that we’re aware of) since Ocean Air opened. Right now, they seem to be letting some kids from the Ocean Air district go to Sage Canyon. So it would seem that if you live in the Sage Canyon district (which Bridle Ridge is in), then there would be room for your kids at Sage, and that some Ocean Air kids might be displaced in their favor. However, if you don’t sign up for the following school year by February, then they may (or may not) displace your kid in favor of someone not in the district, but who applied in February. They’re somewhat vague about how they decide these things. They also like to under-promise (or maybe I should say they’re extremely careful not to over-promise). It’s different every year, but friends of ours who just moved to Sage Canyon this year got both their kids (K and 4th) into Sage Canyon. And all the kids on our street (which is new) got into Sage.

Good Luck and let me know if you have any questions.[/quote]

Thanks – this is exactly the kind of information we were hoping to get. And it confirms our thought that we should probably act quickly.

[yellowS2K]

[quote=zk]yellowS2K

I talked to the wife this morning about the school issue. Apparently some kids have been sent to other schools (Del Mar Hills, Sycamore Ridge), but not (that we’re aware of) since Ocean Air opened. Right now, they seem to be letting some kids from the Ocean Air district go to Sage Canyon. So it would seem that if you live in the Sage Canyon district (which Bridle Ridge is in), then there would be room for your kids at Sage, and that some Ocean Air kids might be displaced in their favor. However, if you don’t sign up for the following school year by February, then they may (or may not) displace your kid in favor of someone not in the district, but who applied in February. They’re somewhat vague about how they decide these things. They also like to under-promise (or maybe I should say they’re extremely careful not to over-promise). It’s different every year, but friends of ours who just moved to Sage Canyon this year got both their kids (K and 4th) into Sage Canyon. And all the kids on our street (which is new) got into Sage.

Good Luck and let me know if you have any questions.[/quote]

Thanks – this is exactly the kind of information we were hoping to get. And it confirms our thought that we should probably act quickly.

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[quote=Rhett]http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/support/child/ECEC/index.html

Might be a wait list issue, though it typically is less of a wait the younger you start.[/quote]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives!

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[quote=Rhett]http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/support/child/ECEC/index.html

Might be a wait list issue, though it typically is less of a wait the younger you start.[/quote]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives!

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[quote=Rhett]http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/support/child/ECEC/index.html

Might be a wait list issue, though it typically is less of a wait the younger you start.[/quote]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives!

[yellowS2K]

[quote=Rhett]http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/support/child/ECEC/index.html

Might be a wait list issue, though it typically is less of a wait the younger you start.[/quote]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives!

[yellowS2K]

[quote=Rhett]http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/support/child/ECEC/index.html

Might be a wait list issue, though it typically is less of a wait the younger you start.[/quote]

Thanks for all the tips on this from the various posts above – we’ll probably put ourselves on the wait list first thing Monday am – even if we didn’t end up living near (like La Jolla Scenic Dr), might make sense to have daycare as close to wife’s work as possible.

They take infants as young as 3 months. Probably wouldn’t want to start at 3 months – wife will take as much time as she can, and then I’ll follow that by taking as much time as I can (maybe even contemplating unpaid leave for a few months if I can work that out with my employer).

Now we just have to find/buy/move-in-to a house before the little one arrives!

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[quote=Rhett][quote=yellowS2K]Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see![/quote]

A flexible commute can pretty much negate the Genesee/Governor issue, as can some route creativity (coming in from the south via 52, for example).[/quote]

Getting onto the 52 from the 5 south is backed up every day for the evening rush (wife drives by that now and has seen it daily for a few months). But it would be an alternate route.

Last night test drove from work parking lot to Standley Middle school (right by one of the listings in UC that bearishgurl suggested) using local streets (La Jolla Village to Nobel to Genesee) up through the Genesee/Governor intersection. Took 11 minutes going through 14 lights (many of which I got lucky on and hit green). Left at 4:35pm – about when she’d typically be leaving, however UCSD is not in session and the VA hospital traffic wasn’t present (let people leave early for the holiday I guess? other times we’ve seen quite a steady stream heading out of their parking lot at that time). There was no traffic out of the high school either (although presumably by 4:45-5pm on normal days this wouldn’t have much effect?). Anyway, this is a best-case scenario for sure. The reverse trip took closer to 15 minutes (hit more lights, and have to turn left from Governor to Genesee and left from Genesee to Nobel whereas those are right-hand turns come home).

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[quote=Rhett][quote=yellowS2K]Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see![/quote]

A flexible commute can pretty much negate the Genesee/Governor issue, as can some route creativity (coming in from the south via 52, for example).[/quote]

Getting onto the 52 from the 5 south is backed up every day for the evening rush (wife drives by that now and has seen it daily for a few months). But it would be an alternate route.

Last night test drove from work parking lot to Standley Middle school (right by one of the listings in UC that bearishgurl suggested) using local streets (La Jolla Village to Nobel to Genesee) up through the Genesee/Governor intersection. Took 11 minutes going through 14 lights (many of which I got lucky on and hit green). Left at 4:35pm – about when she’d typically be leaving, however UCSD is not in session and the VA hospital traffic wasn’t present (let people leave early for the holiday I guess? other times we’ve seen quite a steady stream heading out of their parking lot at that time). There was no traffic out of the high school either (although presumably by 4:45-5pm on normal days this wouldn’t have much effect?). Anyway, this is a best-case scenario for sure. The reverse trip took closer to 15 minutes (hit more lights, and have to turn left from Governor to Genesee and left from Genesee to Nobel whereas those are right-hand turns come home).

[yellowS2K]

[quote=Rhett][quote=yellowS2K]Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see![/quote]

A flexible commute can pretty much negate the Genesee/Governor issue, as can some route creativity (coming in from the south via 52, for example).[/quote]

Getting onto the 52 from the 5 south is backed up every day for the evening rush (wife drives by that now and has seen it daily for a few months). But it would be an alternate route.

Last night test drove from work parking lot to Standley Middle school (right by one of the listings in UC that bearishgurl suggested) using local streets (La Jolla Village to Nobel to Genesee) up through the Genesee/Governor intersection. Took 11 minutes going through 14 lights (many of which I got lucky on and hit green). Left at 4:35pm – about when she’d typically be leaving, however UCSD is not in session and the VA hospital traffic wasn’t present (let people leave early for the holiday I guess? other times we’ve seen quite a steady stream heading out of their parking lot at that time). There was no traffic out of the high school either (although presumably by 4:45-5pm on normal days this wouldn’t have much effect?). Anyway, this is a best-case scenario for sure. The reverse trip took closer to 15 minutes (hit more lights, and have to turn left from Governor to Genesee and left from Genesee to Nobel whereas those are right-hand turns come home).

[yellowS2K]

[quote=Rhett][quote=yellowS2K]Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see![/quote]

A flexible commute can pretty much negate the Genesee/Governor issue, as can some route creativity (coming in from the south via 52, for example).[/quote]

Getting onto the 52 from the 5 south is backed up every day for the evening rush (wife drives by that now and has seen it daily for a few months). But it would be an alternate route.

Last night test drove from work parking lot to Standley Middle school (right by one of the listings in UC that bearishgurl suggested) using local streets (La Jolla Village to Nobel to Genesee) up through the Genesee/Governor intersection. Took 11 minutes going through 14 lights (many of which I got lucky on and hit green). Left at 4:35pm – about when she’d typically be leaving, however UCSD is not in session and the VA hospital traffic wasn’t present (let people leave early for the holiday I guess? other times we’ve seen quite a steady stream heading out of their parking lot at that time). There was no traffic out of the high school either (although presumably by 4:45-5pm on normal days this wouldn’t have much effect?). Anyway, this is a best-case scenario for sure. The reverse trip took closer to 15 minutes (hit more lights, and have to turn left from Governor to Genesee and left from Genesee to Nobel whereas those are right-hand turns come home).

[yellowS2K]

[quote=Rhett][quote=yellowS2K]Still not sure if UC is an option given traffic on Genesee and Governor – but hope to test that out soon. Also, wife seems to be leaning heavily towards the area around Sage and Ocean Air anyway. But we’ll see![/quote]

A flexible commute can pretty much negate the Genesee/Governor issue, as can some route creativity (coming in from the south via 52, for example).[/quote]

Getting onto the 52 from the 5 south is backed up every day for the evening rush (wife drives by that now and has seen it daily for a few months). But it would be an alternate route.

Last night test drove from work parking lot to Standley Middle school (right by one of the listings in UC that bearishgurl suggested) using local streets (La Jolla Village to Nobel to Genesee) up through the Genesee/Governor intersection. Took 11 minutes going through 14 lights (many of which I got lucky on and hit green). Left at 4:35pm – about when she’d typically be leaving, however UCSD is not in session and the VA hospital traffic wasn’t present (let people leave early for the holiday I guess? other times we’ve seen quite a steady stream heading out of their parking lot at that time). There was no traffic out of the high school either (although presumably by 4:45-5pm on normal days this wouldn’t have much effect?). Anyway, this is a best-case scenario for sure. The reverse trip took closer to 15 minutes (hit more lights, and have to turn left from Governor to Genesee and left from Genesee to Nobel whereas those are right-hand turns come home).

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