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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, yes, we have applied to 8 or so charter schools, but again, we could be shut out. Bridges would be a great choice for us--we can probably walk there in 25 min--but now that it is adding grades, it will probably have more applying for it through the lottery, so not as easy to get into.

I have planned to visit shining stars, as I have heard mixed things. But for a variety of reasons, I feel that montessori is probably a poor fit with my child, who has  trouble self-directing and self-regulating. I am hoping for a tools of the mind curriculum or something similar.

I am curious about the DCPS co-ops. [b]Are there older (4 year old) kids in them[/b]? [/quote]

Yes, some of them go up to 5 y.o.:

Chevy Chase Community Center	5601 Connecticut Avenue, NW	2 - 5 years
Chevy Chase Recreation Center	5500 41st Street, NW	2 - 5 years
Friendship Recreation Center	      4500 Van Ness Street, NW	2½ - 5 years
Guy Mason Recreation Center	3600 Calvert Street, NW	2½ - 5 years
Kennedy Recreation Center	1401 7th Street, NW	2½ - 5 years
Mitchell Park Recreation Center	1801 23rd Street, NW	2 - 5 years
Volta Park Recreation Center	1555 34th Street, NW	2½ - 5 years

Registration opens next Monday (3/18) at 10am, and is online only.  The program is September to May.  It costs $30 per site to register and another $20 for materials fees, those are non-refundable.  The program fee for the entire school year is $1,920, but it is payable in monthly installments, and the first one isn't due until the beginning of September.

You could apply to the one you like best, and put down your $50, and be safe.  If by September you don't get into a school you like, you pay the September payment and go for that month.  ($1,950/9 mos. =  $217)  The September shuffle will continue until October 5th, so your DC would still have something worthwhile to do while you wait to hear what schools you get into.  If nothing comes up that you like better than the co-op, then for about $2K your DC has half-day PreS/PreK in a nice neighborhood (Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Chevy Chase) at a nice facility, and you have lots of control over the activities.  In truth, it's a lot more like the pre-school and Kindergarten that most of us had when we were growing up, back before the days of all-day school for 3 year-olds.

For $50, you can buy yourself a lot of peace of mind.[/quote]

For clarification, it is not a DCPS co-op.  It's through DPR (Dept. of Parks and Recreation).  It tends to be at the nicer facilities in neighborhoods where the nannies take their charges to half-day school, before they go home for lunch and a nap, and maybe come back in the afternoons to play at the park on nice days.  Very play-based, not academic (or worksheets for pre-schoolers which you WILL see at many DCPS schools which offer PS3).

All the info is here:

http://dc.gov/DC/DPR/Programs+and+Services/Educational+Programs/Cooperative+Play/ci.Cooperative+Play.print[/quote]

[b]Sorry - DC residents-only applications started to be accepted on Monday the 11th - 2 days ago.  Open enrollment (non-residents) begins on Monday the 18th, so get an application in NOW if you want to preserve your options.[/b][/quote]

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