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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I asked our DCPS preK and they said we had to submit all the forms by May 1, including medical and dental -- but last year's medical and dental would be fine until the next time we got to the doctor. That said, the school our son will be attending is mostly low income so i'm guessing they'll be pretty flexible on everything save for the residency forms.  [/quote]

New poster here, but there's a pretty obvious correlation between low-income, which often means at-risk, which often means food scarcity, healthcare scarcity etc. Low income people often don't lack healthcare, dummies, because this country doesn't have single pawer.  Which for a million reasons means that it can be hard for parents of new school students to get health and medical forms submitted with only a month's notice. I am going to be scrambling this month to pull together the forms -- from LAST year -- and i only have those super handy because my *rich* kid has already been in preschool for a year. I would be in trouble if i needed to get a doctor's appointment and dentist appointment taken care of in a month's time -- and i can come and go from work pretty easily. If i'm low income and working minimum wage, this is crazy hard to accomplish.  It's not a statement about the parents' capacity to get their sh*t together; it's a statement about it sucks to be low income and have only a month to TCB on stuff that is hard enough for people with better resources. Anybody who wants to call me out on that statement is an idiot. [/quote]

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