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[quote=Anonymous]My child is starting PK3 this fall at a DCPS school and obviously we're still waiting to hear what the district decides regarding opening schools. I'm curious though about what other parents of PK students are planning to do for DL, and what your schools have communicated is the plan for DL. Are the charters that have announced DL-exclusive for the fall saying what that looks like for 3 and 4 year olds? It's really hard for me to imagine a DL program that would provide my kid with anything of value.

And, since the value of DL is likely to be negligible (what my kid really needs is socialization with peers and adults who aren't related to her), I question whether we will be able to participate. My husband and I both work (remotely for now), and I've had to scale back my hours a lot to make up for the loss of childcare starting in March. But at least I know that the time I spend with my kid is valuable, even if it means a decrease in income. That equation becomes really different if I'm giving up working hours in order to babysit unproductive DL sessions -- I'd rather just take my kid to the park or read books or do anything that might actually benefit her than crouch over a computer screen while trying to get her to "pay attention". I have no idea what the requirements for signing into DL sessions will be, but it feels like just an extra burden on parents of very small kids who are also trying to get by without childcare. If they are doing a hybrid schedule, my preference would be to just be on my own for the days she's not in school, because at least then we could sort something out that works for our family.

What are other parents of PK3 and 4 kids (or even K or 1st grade, which I'm guessing has a lot of the same problems) planning on doing? I feel like the conversation around DL usually concerns older kids who are doing more actual academic work. In those cases, I get why DL isn't ideal, but at least it serves more of a purpose. But especially for PK3 kids who will never even have met their teachers in person and will have a limited understanding of what school even means, I just don't get how it's supposed to work.[/quote]

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