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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone has to start over. If you're at your IB school for PS3 and PS4, whether it's Brent or Takoma or wherever, you stay there because it's your school of right. If you want to lottery out, you do it at K. It would just move the critical lottery year out to kindergarten instead of PS3. I'm sure you aren't suggesting that Appletree parents are not bonded to or committed to their school just because their kids won't be there past PK4.

That way the folks who want to keep their kids home, or whose kids are not ready because they are delayed or they have a late birthday or whatever, can do so. Families who don't need the "free daycare" aspect don't have to take up resources for PS3 and PS4 that they don't really need. Working families can send their kids to IB schools or lottery into a PS3 or PK4 spot OOB or in a charter school, with the understanding that they will have to lottery again at K.

No need to get angry about it--it's just a discussion point. As mentioned many times before, the universal PS3 and PK4 was originally meant to help boost the achievement and school readiness for all of DC's kids and has been a lifesaver for families who work and/or can't afford high-quality daycare. The unintended consequence was what has been expressed many times: pushing kids and families into the system before they really need or want to be.[/quote]

You know, there are many of us who send our kids to public preschool because we think it's the right schooling choice not because we want or need "free daycare". My kids go to PS at 3 because I value early childhood education for both the academics and social/emotional growth and want them to start at 3.  But I would never in a million years trust those critical years of schooling to my IB school. Under your plan I would either have to lottery twice or pay for preschool, both of which I would do.  But I reject the false assumption that parents who send their kids to public preschool only do so because they want free care for their kids.[/quote]

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