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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] ... This would give people the all-day care they need for 3's and 4's without all the stress of trying to pick a philosophy, a language, a feeder program and a commute they could live with forever at such an early age.

Yes, the kids would likely change schools for K, but that has historically been the case when kids transitioned from preschool to kindergarten. And I say this as a Stokes parent who did get lucky in the lottery, but would have liked to keep my daughter home another year without losing our spot.[/quote]

This is an important point that I have seen is that it is not "all day care" - it is a full day of school.  DC is trying to do something to close the performance gap - and because it does not work for you and your snowflake, you want new rules.

Children from low-SES families often begin kindergarten with significantly less linguistic knowledge.  DC tried to do something about this and are providing these children (and the rest of the DC residents) the opportunity to have a quality PreS and PreK programs. 
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They're letting wealthy kids compete with head start kids for spots that were previously income based. [b]The wealthier kids come from families with two working parents. The working families are working but there is a recognition that working families can't easily afford all-day childcare.[/b] This is as much to make it easier on them than on the poor kids. Especially since the poor kids now have to share the program with the middle and wealthy class kids whose parents could pay for it otherwise. [/quote]

I have to disagree with this, at least at my charter.  Many of the low-income families only have one working parent or have family members and friends who take care of their kids.  Out of 25 kids in DS's class, only about 10 show up for before-care and it's less than that for aftercare.  School ends at 3pm and by the time I get there to pickup at 4:30, there's only about 5 kids left.  So clearly, those kids have someone available to care for them outside of school hours.  We have no family and friends here to rely on for this.  We are two working parents, but we are by no means wealthy.[/quote]

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