” with 20 kids fighting they are fighting to get into already BOOKED schools”
I hear you. But there HAS to be a spot for each child. Pehaps not in one single school, or maybe even among 4 schools. But there is no way each school is fully booked to capacity.
I keep coming back to the shidduch analogy. Its not that the boy cannot make up his mind, its that he’s afraid that if he commits, he might be passing up something better.
Schools are the same way. If they say yes now, they might be boxing themselves out of scooping up a “better” kid (parents with better yichus, more $$, less of a nudnik, ect) next month.
So the trick (and yes, trick, because is really is a game) is to present yourself (and your child) as THE CHOICE. Even if you don’t have all the bells and whistles.
I read this next line in the context of disater management / emergency preparedness, but it holds true in many life situations: Success is 10% methodolgy, 90% psychology.
Or in our lingo, tracht gut, vet zien gut (think positive, and things will work out).
I’ve been in this seat before. They are messing with your head. Mess with theirs 🙂
B’hatzlacha!