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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still waiting for someone to articulate a principled rationale for eliminating PK3 other than it sucks that my neighbor gets two years of PK and I got screwed.  I up pose you can move into the attendance zone of one of the WOTP schools where no PK3 is offered and you still might not get in for PK4.  It's unfortunate that some are to some degree the "victims" of Brent's success in this regard, but I don't think a scenario by which 40 more three-year olds -- many of whom have siblings at Brent -- would be competing for PS3 spots at places like the Hill Preschool, Appletree, Two Rivers or Eagle Academy in necessarily in anyone's best interests.[/quote]

It would align the PK class more closely with the expected K class and with the neighborhood population, instead of having a bulge of new IB students arrive in K.  This alignment would help with planning, resources, cohesion etc.  In addition it would improve retention of families in the neighborhood and at the school if the likelihood of getting a PK4 spot were improved.  And rather than those 40 (or really 32; I'm not sure where you got 40) three-year olds competing for the PK3 spots as you suggest, there are now 15-30 competing for PK3 and PK4 spots, so the competition issue is there anyway.  And as I have mentioned in other posts, this population issue is going on all over the Hill so it is only going to get worse at every school in the neighborhood unless more spots open up (at either the PK3 level or at PK4 with no PK3).  [/quote]

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