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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a FTM to my 18 month old DD. I hear all these stories about getting your kid into a great school from the start. My concern is mostly spurred by the Wapo article today where the author started looking at schools for her daughter when she was 6 months old. Is this normal? I realize the answer from the DC crowd will be biased.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/09/admissions-officers-rejected-my-daughter-from-kindergarten-for-being-bossy/

We don't intend on sending DD to private school from the beginning as long as we are in a good school district. We will be moving in about 1.5 years from now (military family) so we can't be sure of some of the factors until then.  Should I panic that we haven't applied for a school yet or determined the school district where we'll live? We started a college fund when she was born and I thought we were ahead of the curve!

I also have some basic questions: What age do they start school. Is Pre-k the first year of school or is there a pre-pre-k now? Is pre-school different than pre-k? Is pre-k ever a full time program or is it always part-time? She is in full time daycare now where they have quite a bit of structure (circle time, reading time, organized play) so going to a part-time pre-k seems like a step backwards. And how is pre-k any different than a structured daycare program?[/quote]

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