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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]pp here - but I agree that many are getting lost and don’t want to sweep that under the rug. I just wonder if 20k includes incomplete enrollment. A friend had to do it 3 times for one kid. [/quote]

The title of the article OP linked is “ D.C. says 20,000 students started the enrollment process, but did not complete it‘[/quote]

I posted before, but there’s a pre certified enrollment that automatically reenrolls kids. The article didn’t specific if that number includes these kids. I would be more worried if they were 20k proactively enrolled vs. automatically re-enrolled that parents maybe aren’t aware of. [/quote]

The automatic enrollment gets deleted if they take a lottery slot, so it’s still pretty worrying if 20,000 people opted not to reenroll their kid in DCPS/DCPCS. 20,000 kids did not head to private school or move.[/quote]

The article says that last year, at this point, 10K kids had not completed the process.  Many of those kids were attending school, and just had outstanding paperwork.

My guess is you're going to have more people having trouble with the paperwork, or ignoring the requests because they aren't seeing school staff face to face.  You're also going to have more kids whose parents made another choice like keeping a preschooler in daycare, or at home, or homeschooling, or going to private, or sending them to Grandma's.

So, some fraction of these numbers may be kids in alarming situations, but not all 20K or even the majority.  [/quote]

Typical Perry Stein article. She wrote words that supported the premise she started with. Grudgingly included facts that didn't fit with her conclusion but buried them deep. Even if you assume everything she wrote is well sourced it is still  delta of 10k, not 20k. And there is no relative data for surrounding districts. Or data on how many people usually complete the enrollment online vs in person. It is kind of a Rorschach Test; you see what you want to see, even if there is nothing there. Which for DCUM readers is like blood in the water.    [/quote]

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