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[quote=Anonymous]You don't know yet if your kid is going to be academically, socially, physically, etc. ahead or behind or on target and what his needs will be. You don't know if you'll still have the same job or financial situation or friends 3 years from now. You don't know how the school's feeder patterns and demographics will change over time and whether that will matter to you.

You seem super anxious and no matter what school you send your kid to there will be stuff you like and stuff you don't--the stuff may feel different at an urban school that is (my assumption based on your post, and perhaps I'm wrong) is very different from the schools where you grew up, and where you and your child will be in the racial and socioeconomic minority.  But it is PreK. They play dress up and sing songs and look at books. Some kids take a little longer to get into the routine than others. But they are all toddlers together and almost all of the schools do a really good job with the littlest ones, even if the test scores for grades 3-5 look low (and usually, part of the reason they are low is because most of the well-educated families move away from the school by the testing grades).

If it makes you feel better to move to the suburbs and do private preschool, you absolutely should do that. There are plenty of people who will take your spot in DCPS. But I'm not convinced it is better overall, and certainly impossible to predict based for a specific child who at this point probably does not even reliably roll over.[/quote]

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