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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"So would anyone be supportive of giving at-risk preference over IB students for Pk3 and Pk4 at DCPS?"

Would you -- if they stay, as they would, for the rest of elementary, and junior high, etc?  So PK3 and PK4 get filled with at risk.   Maybe one additional classroom gets opened up for K, maybe 2 if it is a big school.   Where will all the other IB kids go?   And then you have a school which is 75% at risk or 3/5 at risk.   That is assuming a lot of at-risk kids apply, but there probably are a lot.

Or let's say it is just 1/3 of at risk kids admitted for pre-K, so that by K it is about one classroom's worth of at risk spread across the classes.   That is still a whole extra class that would have to be added to K to maintain the IB by right kids.  Where do you put all of these kids, and where do you get the money to add the extra classes.  Unless more of them leave the system, which they might.

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If the school gets crowded they can reduce the number of preschool classrooms offered.  Surprise surprise, overcrowding to allow for preschool is fine when it is serving IB siblings from mostly middle and upper class families.  Will it be tolerable for poor kids?

The money comes from downtown under the UPSFF.  It follows the student.[/quote]

This doesn’t make sense.  The overcrowding at these schools does not come from “overcrowding to allow for preschool”.  Rather it comes from the number of IB kids who show up at K (whether in PK or not).  If you cut pk you still have those same IB kids at K. If you add at risk kids in PK, you still have the IB kids at K. I’m all for an at-risk preference in PK but to be practicable it would either have to “IB at risk have preference” (which probably would not do much at these schools but it would be more equitable than the IB sibling preference) or a fairly low cap, like let in 5-10% at risk (from anywhere) at the top of the pref list). [/quote]

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