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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take back my words about making a PK thread. It’s insane how some people think that PK teachers would sit back and teach other grades in the first place.
Or they haven’t lived here long enough to figure out how much value DCPS places in PK.

Or the value of starting school at this age, especially for children with special needs, HUGE gains can be made in PK. For people who ‘follow science’ they sure don’t know a lock about education.[/quote]

Please, these people begging to eliminate PK so their 4th grader can be guaranteed 5 days a week would lose their sh$t if DCPS sent an ECE teacher into their classroom, even assuming that teacher would be willing to do that.

Nope, what they want it to fire all the PK teachers, co-opt those classrooms, and invest the money in [i]their[/i] child's education. It isn't a policy argument and it isn't based in anything real. It's just selfish parents looking around for something they can take away from another child and give to their own.[/quote]

Sadly, it basically is a policy argument that universal PK is not something that DC should be spending resources (time, money, space) on. Fortunately DC disagrees which is why we are one of the only jurisdictions to have universal PK with the benefits that come with it (and as a PP said one of benefits is that universal PK is offered to all in DC and is not means tested which means it ends up with students of different SES backgrounds cohorting)[/quote]

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