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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all the responses, and wow, the reviews are really mixed.

We were looking at renting inbound somewhere for DCPS (Foggy Bottom/West End/Glover Park) for Prek 3&4 so we have the flexibility to either move back to NY or find a more permanent home after 2 years, once we've had a chance to actually live in the area for a while (our mistake when moving to Westchester county was not renting first).

I'm ok to do private pre-k too, if the public school option turns out to be terrible, but we figured we'd give Early Stages a try. Our experience with the NY counterpart has been ok (they provide services, but only 1hr/week, which is far less than what our child probably needs now, especially speech).

After speaking with Early Stages, it sounds like they would do an IEP transfer with preference for whatever our inbound school would be, provided that school can meet the IEP requirements. The difference is our current program in Westchester the services must be provided by our local school, but as they don't offer pre-k, it is done at a private center, preschool or home depending on the recommendations made after evaluations.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but MCPS sounds similar to what we are working with now (?) with perhaps more funding due to being a much larger district. I'm not sure whether that translates into more/better services or outcomes, just my impression. Here, most people want to opt for the public schools due to the property taxes, being viewed as similar in quality to private. Whether or not that is actually true, I can't say.

From a lifestyle perspective, we're looking to simplify (smaller home, walkable neighborhood, access to community resources and events). We have no family here and it's difficult to make friends, people just live kind of isolated in their homes and shuttle their kids around to expensive activities when not in school. I don't want to get into that rat race (as much as possible).

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I think you're going to be very, very disappointed with public school IEP services in the DMV as compared to NYS. [/quote]

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