NYC’s public school application website crashes day before deadline
New York City parents were left fuming Wednesday after the website accepting their children’s public school applications buckled under high traffic — one day before the deadline.
Thousands of incoming middle and high school students have until the end of Thursday to submit their applications for the next academic year — however numerous parents told The Post they haven’t been able to load the website to upload the proper documents.
“The site is just not working for me. I think there’s just heavy use. It’s the equivalent of trying to buy Taylor Swift tickets right now,” one concerned mother, Lindsay Owen, told The Post.
Owen said Wednesday evening that she had been sitting on her computer for hours trying to complete a high school application for her son through the DOE’s MySchools web platform that she said should only take a few minutes.
Read the full article here: https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/nycs-school-application-website-crashes-day-before-deadline/
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