Throwaway account for personal reasons.
We applied our little one over a year ago for the lowest class. A "friend" applied her child a few months ago for the same class. We were told there is a waiting list, yet they received a placement. I asked how, and she told me her husband handled the application and she doesn't know the details.
For an early class school doesn't test or even meet the children or parents during the application process. Did they bribe someone, or why did they get the place when we didn't? If there is waiting list we should have been much higher on it than they were. We are all same nationality, children 1 month difference in age. No siblings already in school.
How does ISM work? Do people really pay high bribes to someone in the school, are rumors I hear around Monaco true? Coruption? The selection certainly doesn't seem fair.