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[quote=Anonymous]You'll be upset about it for a bit just because you probably know parents with kids born in August or September and are jealous they are done with daycare for their 3 year old.

But after the initial frustration, you will suck it up and pay for childcare and then you will realize it's nice not to worry about your kid being the youngest and having more time is a gift (even if she seems developmentally advanced now -- she's really too young for you to know how she will do socially or academically).

I say this as someone on the other side, with a kid with a September birthday. But we actually got screwed by Covid -- the year our kid would have qualified for PK3, the schools were closed (they did do "virtual PK" and let me tell you, that is quite possible the dumbest thing DCPS did during Covid -- it would have been more effective to distribute books about early childhood education and bottles of Xanax). We wound up getting DD into a part-time in-person private preschool in the spring. But you know what? When she started PK4 the following fall, I was glad she got the reprieve. DCPS PK is awesome but it's a long day for the youngest kids and it's a lot busier and more active than most daycares or time with nannies. It turned out it was the best thing for her even though it was a bummer for us financially.[/quote]

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