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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it possible or useful to make a list of known play based programs in DC?[/quote]

Curious about this, with some caveats since there’s some disagreement in this thread about what “play-based” refers to.

Mostly though I think we should listen to the teachers, who probably have a better sense of not just their classroom and what their school requires but also trends within DCPS. We parents can get too defensive of our own decisions or jump to extremes. I don’t know how a section of this thread concluded people asking about play are then anti-learning and should go to forest school … really doesn’t help the discussion. 
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You should attend open houses of schools within a small radius of your home and pick the school that best fits your needs.

The stress of commuting across the city is not worth avoiding an occasional small group or explicit phonics instruction.[/quote]

It’s not stressful to know my child is learning in a way that’s developmentally appropriate. And who said one would have to commute ‘across the city,’ your IB could very well not be using a crazy amount of tech. Your ‘whatever’ attitude is part of the reason why US education ranks so lowly across the developed world.

Apologies if I believe teachers who work in DCPS more than your experience.

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Whose PK is using a “crazy amount of tech”? do you really think a few minutes of learning letters is verboten and will ruin your child? [/quote]

Why are you in denial? It's not a few minutes.

Did you not read what the teachers said that is coming down from central?    It’s blocks and blocks of time and then there is group instruction  taking away from centers, etc…. Most of the time besides lunch, nap, recess is academics and not play base.
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PK isn’t obligatory. You do not need to send your child to school at 3. [/quote]

Correction, don’t send your kid to DCPS.  Go charter or private.  Done and your child will be much better off without the literacy and math blocks, small groups, and worksheets and much happier.[/quote]

Nope, send your kids to a charter to find tech. DCPS are actual public schools and should follow the science. Let some charter schools be the ones to do developmentally inappropriate things for children.[/quote]

Au contraire though that it is DCPS who are the culprit and not following the science and doing developmentally inappropriate things which is what this whole thread is about.

They continue to give families reasons not to choose DCPS.  And no one should be surprised why by exhibit A here in this thread.[/quote]

Hmm  :roll:

You did not understand what was being said. It’s DCPS needs to follow the science, as in that should be the norm. There should be charters that use a lot of tech, as a choice for parents who want such things.

Also you could not possible know the norm or even the average norm of every charter in DCPS. However based on test scores in elementary school the top 10 schools are all DCPS schools. One my child went to where they notably used less tech in ECE (Pk-3rd). [/quote]

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