Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in the Lafayette boundary and our child went through the school. So embarrassed by this whole "save prek at Lafayette" effort. It's so tone deaf. I expect it is doing more harm to their effort than it is helping it.

+1. I truly believe that this group of parents doesn't understand how they look to the majority of the city.

[Anonymous]

I don’t even understand this issue. Looks like a win for Lafayette to get more pre-k by taking over a new building. It’s too bad it’s across the park but oh well.

[Anonymous]

Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

This is one of the arguments raised by Lafayette parents against the plan. DCPS seemingly is going to call their bluff about not sending their kids across the park for nine months. I think school officials expect the PK classes to be full of IB students, and I bet they'll be correct in that assumption.

And frankly, I've seen enough of "I don't have any more PK students at Lafayette but I hate this plan" to know that the people screeching the loudest about it are mostly ones who will be unaffected by it. They just don't want anything to do with anything on the other side of Rock Creek Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

This is one of the arguments raised by Lafayette parents against the plan. DCPS seemingly is going to call their bluff about not sending their kids across the park for nine months. I think school officials expect the PK classes to be full of IB students, and I bet they'll be correct in that assumption.

And frankly, I've seen enough of "I don't have any more PK students at Lafayette but I hate this plan" to know that the people screeching the loudest about it are mostly ones who will be unaffected by it. They just don't want anything to do with anything on the other side of Rock Creek Park.

Yuck. I'd be pissed if I was a potential PK parent.

[Anonymous]

The parents sound ridiculous and yet...it is not insane to worry about overcrowding when the entire reason for his move is that the school is overcrowded!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

Yep. That's one of the arguments against it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

This is one of the arguments raised by Lafayette parents against the plan. DCPS seemingly is going to call their bluff about not sending their kids across the park for nine months. I think school officials expect the PK classes to be full of IB students, and I bet they'll be correct in that assumption.

And frankly, I've seen enough of "I don't have any more PK students at Lafayette but I hate this plan" to know that the people screeching the loudest about it are mostly ones who will be unaffected by it. They just don't want anything to do with anything on the other side of Rock Creek Park.

The bolded part is how they're showing their racism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

This is one of the arguments raised by Lafayette parents against the plan. DCPS seemingly is going to call their bluff about not sending their kids across the park for nine months. I think school officials expect the PK classes to be full of IB students, and I bet they'll be correct in that assumption.

And frankly, I've seen enough of "I don't have any more PK students at Lafayette but I hate this plan" to know that the people screeching the loudest about it are mostly ones who will be unaffected by it. They just don't want anything to do with anything on the other side of Rock Creek Park.

The bolded part is how they're showing their racism.

I think a lot of them are people with older kids who don't want to go to Roosevelt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

This is one of the arguments raised by Lafayette parents against the plan. DCPS seemingly is going to call their bluff about not sending their kids across the park for nine months. I think school officials expect the PK classes to be full of IB students, and I bet they'll be correct in that assumption.

And frankly, I've seen enough of "I don't have any more PK students at Lafayette but I hate this plan" to know that the people screeching the loudest about it are mostly ones who will be unaffected by it. They just don't want anything to do with anything on the other side of Rock Creek Park.

The bolded part is how they're showing their racism.

I think a lot of them are people with older kids who don't want to go to Roosevelt.

Which wouldn't happen, because anyone currently in school would be grandfathered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

Yep. That's one of the arguments against it.

Most of the parents so viciously arguing this point don't even have future PK kids. I don't believe for a minute that enough future PK parents will refuse to have two drop offs for free PK in favor of having two drop offs anyway to pay for PK to result in Lafayette letting in multiple classes worth of OOB kids in PK. I agree with a pp that DCPS is going to approve this plan and call their bluff.

[Anonymous]

Hey critical loudmouths from the less desirable village of Schadenfreude: the objection is to separating pre-K from the main campus when there are plainly other options: trailers, limiting enrollment, etc. If these options had actually been transparently considered and debated, people wouldn’t be upset.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not a Lafayette parent so no dog in the fight, just a question...if you have the pre-K and the IB kids don’t go then won’t that increase overcrowding? Because the OOB kids who got spots will continue through and the IB will join in K and go through. Is there enough room at the school to have extra classes in each grade?

This is one of the arguments raised by Lafayette parents against the plan. DCPS seemingly is going to call their bluff about not sending their kids across the park for nine months. I think school officials expect the PK classes to be full of IB students, and I bet they'll be correct in that assumption.

And frankly, I've seen enough of "I don't have any more PK students at Lafayette but I hate this plan" to know that the people screeching the loudest about it are mostly ones who will be unaffected by it. They just don't want anything to do with anything on the other side of Rock Creek Park.

The bolded part is how they're showing their racism.

I think a lot of them are people with older kids who don't want to go to Roosevelt.

Which wouldn't happen, because anyone currently in school would be grandfathered.

Exactly. There haven't been ANY discussions by decision makers that even hints at that happening. I'm a Lafayette parent and I've had it with this group's fig leaves for racism. I can't wait until some of the ringleaders leave our school and stop fracturing the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey critical loudmouths from the less desirable village of Schadenfreude: the objection is to separating pre-K from the main campus when there are plainly other options: trailers, limiting enrollment, etc. If these options had actually been transparently considered and debated, people wouldn’t be upset.

This is an absolute non-starter and the rest of the school population would be outraged (rightfully so) to consider taking away playground space for 100 4 year olds and forcing 800 other kids to accommodate them by reducing their play area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey critical loudmouths from the less desirable village of Schadenfreude: the objection is to separating pre-K from the main campus when there are plainly other options: trailers, limiting enrollment, etc. If these options had actually been transparently considered and debated, people wouldn’t be upset.

This is an absolute non-starter and the rest of the school population would be outraged (rightfully so) to consider taking away playground space for 100 4 year olds and forcing 800 other kids to accommodate them by reducing their play area.

Agreed. I'm not a "critical loudmouth from the less desirable village of Schadenfreude" but an actual Lafayette parent who voted against this preposterous trailers idea along with taking classrooms away from specials teachers. And here they go again picking on OOB kids with their "limiting enrollment" battle cry despite the fact that OOB kids aren't even the reason we're running out of PK space at Lafayette. There are no viable alternatives to keep PK at Lafayette.