Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move

[Anonymous]

I cannot understand why this is worth thr investment. Make a city wide prek center. Otherwise it adds overcrowding to Lafayette w oob kids and spends city money on kids who do not need it. If you own a house in Lafayette you should have thr budget for private. If you don't you should have bought a cheaper house!!!

[Anonymous]

There are some schools that have cut PK for lack of space. No one has proposed a PK center in a different building, or different part of town.

Why not just cut PK at Lafayette? As so many others have said, investment is needed elsewhere in our system.

[Anonymous]

Agree. I am a parent of a rising pk kiddo, think best solution is to cut pk as many other schools have done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there another DCPS elementary school that runs its PK program in a different neighborhood than the rest of the other grades?

Yes Peabody; the Capita(o)l Hill Cluster.

[Anonymous]

Wonder if DCPS has considered the impact this will have on Deal and Wilson. That building can hold more than what pre K at Lafayette can accomodate. DCPS will fill the space with OOB kids. Will these kids then have a right to Lafayette on the main campus? Hello again to over crowding. Then will all of these kids have access to Deal and Wilson which are bursting at seams? Either short-sighted or part of a bigger plan to zone Lafayette out of Deal, Wilson? Lafayette parents should be concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if DCPS has considered the impact this will have on Deal and Wilson. That building can hold more than what pre K at Lafayette can accomodate. DCPS will fill the space with OOB kids. Will these kids then have a right to Lafayette on the main campus? Hello again to over crowding. Then will all of these kids have access to Deal and Wilson which are bursting at seams? Either short-sighted or part of a bigger plan to zone Lafayette out of Deal, Wilson? Lafayette parents should be concerned.

Lafayette parents are concerned. There are literally three separate threads on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if DCPS has considered the impact this will have on Deal and Wilson. That building can hold more than what pre K at Lafayette can accomodate. DCPS will fill the space with OOB kids. Will these kids then have a right to Lafayette on the main campus? Hello again to over crowding. Then will all of these kids have access to Deal and Wilson which are bursting at seams? Either short-sighted or part of a bigger plan to zone Lafayette out of Deal, Wilson? Lafayette parents should be concerned.

This is obviously part of the larger plan to zone Lafayette and Shepherd out of Deal/Wilson and into the Wells/Coolidge feed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you guys take this to the Lafayette FB page?

PS, this is so gross and privileged. Why not open another school like Stevens?

The moderators shut the FB page down because people where being mean to them. They didn't understand that people were mean because everyone thought they were ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I am a parent of a rising pk kiddo, think best solution is to cut pk as many other schools have done.

+1 another rising preK family. And we understand we might not get a spot. That’s fine too. If they cut the number of preK classes, I hope they prioritize neighborhood families with financial need. There are plenty of neighbors who can afford other options.

[Anonymous]

It seems so strange for DCPS to out such a priority on Lafayette having 5-6 PK classes while they didn’t shrug as they basically disappeared at other upper NW schools.

What is going on? They know it is a very wealthy area and it’s not necessary. Why spend over 8M on the building and then force the community into it while we are all home during the pandemic. Something doesn’t smell right.

If it’s to give OOB students a slot in PK - just make it a stand alone PK program. Don’t tie it to Lafayette.

Let Lafayette go down to 1 or 2 PK classes as space allows. They will be FINE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you guys take this to the Lafayette FB page?

PS, this is so gross and privileged. Why not open another school like Stevens?

The moderators shut the FB page down because people where being mean to them. They didn't understand that people were mean because everyone thought they were ridiculous.

Can’t someone else start a new Lafayette FB page? It would be nice to get you all off of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you guys take this to the Lafayette FB page?

PS, this is so gross and privileged. Why not open another school like Stevens?

The moderators shut the FB page down because people where being mean to them. They didn't understand that people were mean because everyone thought they were ridiculous.

Can’t someone else start a new Lafayette FB page? It would be nice to get you all off of DCUM.

It is super easy on this forum to just skip the threads with Lafayette in the title. Problem solved!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if DCPS has considered the impact this will have on Deal and Wilson. That building can hold more than what pre K at Lafayette can accomodate. DCPS will fill the space with OOB kids. Will these kids then have a right to Lafayette on the main campus? Hello again to over crowding. Then will all of these kids have access to Deal and Wilson which are bursting at seams? Either short-sighted or part of a bigger plan to zone Lafayette out of Deal, Wilson? Lafayette parents should be concerned.

This is obviously part of the larger plan to zone Lafayette and Shepherd out of Deal/Wilson and into the Wells/Coolidge feed.

Deal parent here, IB for Shepherd. Wells doesn't have room for Lafayette, and the Deal Principal said Deal isn't overcrowded. This is a tinfoil hat conspiracy, and to me it looks like you're just looking for reasons to make sure OOB kids don't get access to Lafayette because you're racist and elitist.

[Anonymous]

I think the reason for the tinfoil conspiracies is that other schools have eliminated some pre-K classes, and no one ever suggested any remedy, let alone one as outlandish as this one. We’re going to be paying for the pandemic for years, including in terms of education, not to mention health. How is guaranteed Pre-K for Lafayette families a priority in this environment? It just doesn’t add up,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder if DCPS has considered the impact this will have on Deal and Wilson. That building can hold more than what pre K at Lafayette can accomodate. DCPS will fill the space with OOB kids. Will these kids then have a right to Lafayette on the main campus? Hello again to over crowding. Then will all of these kids have access to Deal and Wilson which are bursting at seams? Either short-sighted or part of a bigger plan to zone Lafayette out of Deal, Wilson? Lafayette parents should be concerned.

This is obviously part of the larger plan to zone Lafayette and Shepherd out of Deal/Wilson and into the Wells/Coolidge feed.

Deal parent here, IB for Shepherd. Wells doesn't have room for Lafayette, and the Deal Principal said Deal isn't overcrowded. This is a tinfoil hat conspiracy, and to me it looks like you're just looking for reasons to make sure OOB kids don't get access to Lafayette because you're racist and elitist.

In five years, Deal could be over its capacity by an alarming 51 percent. It was 100 percent at capacity in 2018-19 (including the trailers). So the "actually, Deal isn't overcrowded" gaslighting needs to stop, because it isn't true.

Source: https://thedcline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Wilson-Feeder-Pattern-Community-Working-Group-Summary-Report_February-2019_Final.pdf