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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I’m the PP who hit a nerve. I have two children in DCPS. My younger one is special needs and has had interventions since a toddler. He is now 10 and has an IEP because, even though interventions at the PK level help, most of these children need services long term. Schools absolutely cannot meet IEP requirements in a virtual setting that my child, and many other children, have and need. And let me tell you, for a lot of SN children the stakes are much higher at 10/12/15 years old than at 3. I’m living this nightmare and don’t wish it on anyone. But the focus needs to be on older kids getting back in the classroom first. The stakes are much higher, SN or not. It may not be a politically acceptable argument on DCUM, but it is reality that many of us live, and at this time when resources are scarce, hard and unpopular decisions need to be made.[/quote]

I'm sorry but the stakes may be higher the older you get but you do not get to take the chance for early intervention for other PK kids. And the SCIENCE says the most critical years are birth to 8. That is not my opinion but a scientific fact. If your child for example had no services until 9 years old they would not make the same gains he would have made at 3. It's a similar concept to acquiring another language, you are going to be more of a native speaker if you start at 3 vs. if you started at 15.

Luckily your feelings don't dictate policy. PK kids are not taking resources as they are resources that belong to them.[/quote]

+1. Remember that the DCPS Kindergarten curriculum is very academic and is predicated on children already meeting certain academic benchmarks that they achieved in PK. Some posters here are acting like PK is just for fun, and it's not for DCPS. [/quote]

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