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[quote=Anonymous]My spouse and I live in Maryland, but our daughter has attended a DC daycare since six weeks old (we lived in DC when she was born). The daycare isn't fancy, but she likes it, likes her teachers, and is always happy to go. She turned three last summer, and around the time she turned three, her friends from DC started moving to pre-K at DCPS and charter schools. She still had some other friends there and liked her new class, though. She had some sadness about her friends who left for "big school" and has started asking about when she's going to big school, with what's clearly a mix of interest and anxiety.

Now, the parents of the kids who are left are mostly starting to think about the lottery. I think there's a good chance that when she turns four, she'll be the only kid left who is close to her age. It'll be her and a handful of young three year olds, and kids turning three. With that in mind, we're thinking about moving her to a daycare in Maryland that will have kids her age. There's obvious pros to keeping her in a place she knows and likes, but I also worry about her only being around younger kids. On the other hand, I worry about doing two school transitions in a little over a year, when she goes to kindergarten. We're trying to figure out what to do.

I'm hoping that some other parents here have gone through this? What choices did you make? Are you happy with them? [/quote]

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