Redshirting consequences at Lafayette
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Anonymous
You don’t seem well. I mean, hoping real hard for some parents to sue is pretty crazy. Not to mention the inordinate amount of posts on this topic, it must have taken your life completely. Take a break, it will do you good, help clear your mind a little. |
Anonymous
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Anyone know if this is settled?
Will DCPS cave to the Lafayette families and enroll the first grade aged kids in K? Or will they stick to their policy? |
Anonymous
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They’re still at it
https://wapo.st/405wrSF |
Anonymous
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Why are these people getting so much press? This applies to like 10 children (per the article)? |
Anonymous
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Avra Siegel needs to consider either private school or home-schooling. She clearly has the means, and clearly is staying with DCPS solely to pick fights at this point. She's doing no one any favors with this pointless crusade, including her own kids. |
Anonymous
+1 Meanwhile see the other thread about DC potentially losing federal funds for aftercare. This just continues to feed the stereotype that the city only cares about what goes on in certain schools. |
Anonymous
+1 She received a benefit that she wasn't entitled to. If she's unhappy with DCPS, then she (and others like her) should make other arrangements. |
Anonymous
Why is DCPS digging in if this isn’t a widespread problem? What kind of resources are they willing to commit to fighting so few students enrolling late? |
Anonymous
I can’t imagine being the older kid and having my mom say to a national newspaper that despite me entering K at the age of SIX, I struggled in 1st. Google means this stuff now lives and haunts you forever. Ouch. |
Anonymous
While also publicly displaying a lack of maturity and self-awareness re their role in causing the problem. We all fall short sometimes, but to be so public about it is to go above and beyond. |
Anonymous
She seems truly insufferable. If she had kept her head down she probably would have been able to get her kid into K. |
Anonymous
DCPS isn't "digging in." They are finally enforcing a two-decades old policy that the entire rest of the city follows, at the small handful of upper NW elementaries that imagined themselves somehow exempt from this policy. Also, the policy doesn't say that a kid will never be allowed to do K at 6. It's just that in DC, parents are not allowed to unilaterally make that decision. You have to do it through the school. This is the rule every other family in DC follows. That 10 families at wealthy schools in the city's richest neighborhoods somehow think it's "unfair" for them to follow it does not mean DC is "digging in." They are following the rule. I live in another ward, have a kid with a summer birthday, and I had zero opportunity to redshirt. But these Lafayette parents should get it because.... they are richer than me? They can afford housing in more expensive neighborhoods? They can afford extra time in private PK whereas I relied on DCPS PK for financial reasons? Tell me why they get special rules. What is it about their situation that means they deserve a separate system? |
Anonymous
It is true that by publicizing the issue and making a big stink about it, they are just highlighting the reason why it is completely unfair for them to expect to be allowed to redshirt. If their kids had special needs or any real developmental reason other than "mommy just thinks I need more seasoning," that would be obvious by now and DCPS would have given in. But the more public they are about it, the more obvious it is that these kids would have been perfectly fine starting on time. |
Anonymous
+1. Borrowing the below from another thread because it’s spot on. (Sorry/thank you PP) …these three moms are intentionally making a mess of the messaging because it benefits them. There are absolutely important reasons to redshirt, as have been raised here already — trauma, ESL, developmental delays, neurodivergence, etc. And those can all be properly evaluated, approved and set up with a plan for success. Especially at a school like Lafayette. “I don’t want my kid to be the youngest” is not that. They say “I want my kid to have an advantage” but they intentionally drop the second part of the sentence. Guess what? It’s “I want my kid to have an advantage OVER YOUR KID.” Doesn’t exactly garner as much support when they actually have to admit that’s what they mean. But by virtue of shoving their kid who is over a year too old for a class in with yours, that’s exactly what it means. |
Anonymous
My conspiracy theory is that these three wealthy parents are so insufferable that DCPS is united against them in a way it wouldn’t be if it were a more reasonable family or group. My fear is that their entitlement will cause harm to families who legitimately need to hold their kids back. |