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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]40% of kids in DC shelters are under age 2.  Like, babies and 1 year olds.  Most kids in shelter are not elementary school aged.  The new shelters are probably going to have no more than about 100 kids, so about 1 or 2 per grade will likely enroll in the IB elementary school.

I live in an area where a shelter is planned and our school is already about 10% homeless and about 1/4 have IEPs (not necessarily an overlap but in many cases it is).  We need more support already, but this will only be a very small increase.  [/quote]

I've seen this 40% stat on a couple threads now (probably from the same poster). Could you please point us to the source? Thanks. [/quote]

10:21/immediate PP here. One place I saw it was here: http://www.playtimeproject.org/2016/02/make-room-for-the-babies/

This is an organization that works within the shelters, with the kids. I have worked with them in the past. There is also a census taken at DC General nightly, which is probably where the actual numbers come from. I don't get the census counts anymore, though, so I can't look.

Point is, it's not a bullshit number. It is actually based on something.[/quote]

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