So where did all the kids inbounds for Brent waitlisted for PK3 end up?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the rationale for pk3 at Brent? If they keep it there, shouldn't all the schools have it?

What is the rationale for PK3 at Maury? At LT? At the Cluster? At any DCPS? PK3 was started under Rhee about a decade ago, in part, to make DCPS more attractive to a broader group of families by offering high-quality PK programs at neighborhood schools and the best way of drawing in families would be to open up slots to three-year olds. It's one of the main reason a group of Capitol Hill families banded together and committed to Brent I don't think there's any question that DCPs would love to have PK3 at all of its schools but space limitations are an unfortunate reality.

DCPS has had programs for 3 year olds for a lot more than 10 years. They used to call them "Headstart" but they were blended programs that functioned very much the same way that PK3 does now.

Headstart is an entirely different, federally-funded program for lower income children. That is why the policy of "universal" PK for all, regardless of income, made DCPS attractive to middle and upper-middle class families.

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Anyone know if brent pmoved pk3 wait list at all this summer and what number they are on?

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Why not just call the registrar?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the rationale for pk3 at Brent? If they keep it there, shouldn't all the schools have it?

What is the rationale for PK3 at Maury? At LT? At the Cluster? At any DCPS? PK3 was started under Rhee about a decade ago, in part, to make DCPS more attractive to a broader group of families by offering high-quality PK programs at neighborhood schools and the best way of drawing in families would be to open up slots to three-year olds. It's one of the main reason a group of Capitol Hill families banded together and committed to Brent I don't think there's any question that DCPs would love to have PK3 at all of its schools but space limitations are an unfortunate reality.

DCPS has had programs for 3 year olds for a lot more than 10 years. They used to call them "Headstart" but they were blended programs that functioned very much the same way that PK3 does now.

Headstart is an entirely different, federally-funded program for lower income children. That is why the policy of "universal" PK for all, regardless of income, made DCPS attractive to middle and upper-middle class families.

To add to this-- Tommy Wells was the one that actually got the PreK 3 at Brent and other schools rolling when Brent Neighbors pointed out that DCPS needed to do it to compete with charter schools like Two Rivers which had been offering preK 3 since the beginning. The question was, if Two Rivers can do it, why can't Brent, etc.? Why is preK3 only provided to low income kids at DCPS but open to all regardless of income at charters?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone know if brent pmoved pk3 wait list at all this summer and what number they are on?

We moved up one spot last time I looked. So it has moved but barely.

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Unless that school is SWS, for some reason.

God, give it a rest. SWS was only ever IB as part of the Cluster, and even then there was no right to go. It was never a true neighborhood school, and the deal with DCPS for SWS to go independent and grow the upper grades was that it had to be citywide. Exactly like Logan Montessori.

Just because a school is citywide doesn't mean there shouldn't be a proximity preference.

I live near the DMV. So I should be able to skip the line when I register my car.

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Oh come, on lame analogy. When little kids can attend school near their homes, families, neighborhoods and the city benefit. You learn this if you have to schlep your kid to some distant charter, breathing diesel fumes all the way, to stay in the city. We used to live in Boston, where families get preference for almost every public elementary school within a mile or two of their home. I liked that system.

I feel like we're all lucky to have a number of decent and accesible PreK3 and PreK4 options within a mile and a half of Brent - Tyler Spanish Immersion, Tyler Traditional, Van Ness, AppleTree LP and AppleTree Oklahoma Ave. (which has fabulous PreK3 teachers). If you're in-boundary for Brent but still wait listed at one of the nearby ECE options, don't despair. Families often get offered spots in the first weeks of school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the rationale for pk3 at Brent? If they keep it there, shouldn't all the schools have it?

What is the rationale for PK3 at Maury? At LT? At the Cluster? At any DCPS? PK3 was started under Rhee about a decade ago, in part, to make DCPS more attractive to a broader group of families by offering high-quality PK programs at neighborhood schools and the best way of drawing in families would be to open up slots to three-year olds. It's one of the main reason a group of Capitol Hill families banded together and committed to Brent I don't think there's any question that DCPs would love to have PK3 at all of its schools but space limitations are an unfortunate reality.

DCPS has had programs for 3 year olds for a lot more than 10 years. They used to call them "Headstart" but they were blended programs that functioned very much the same way that PK3 does now.

Headstart is an entirely different, federally-funded program for lower income children. That is why the policy of "universal" PK for all, regardless of income, made DCPS attractive to middle and upper-middle class families.

To add to this-- Tommy Wells was the one that actually got the PreK 3 at Brent and other schools rolling when Brent Neighbors pointed out that DCPS needed to do it to compete with charter schools like Two Rivers which had been offering preK 3 since the beginning. The question was, if Two Rivers can do it, why can't Brent, etc.? Why is preK3 only provided to low income kids at DCPS but open to all regardless of income at charters?

Huh? PreK3 is open to all at DCPS. It's not an income thing.

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This was one of the questions being asked by prospective Brent families a decade ago.