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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These parents are having their kids do PK elsewhere. In several cases they have other, older kids who Dr. B let enroll in K with a summer birthday. Then the new principal came in...apparently changed how the school is going to do it...and then *didn't tell anyone*.

So now these families have to follow different rules than they did with their previous kids...because no one told them the rules had changed! And these decisions to hold were made a year ago.

If the new principal wants to start doing it differently, seems totally fine, but you have to *tell* people, in advance, so they can decide accordingly.

And redshirting is generally allowed within a reasonable range at Mann, Stoddert, Murch, Janney. [/quote]

I'm not a Lafayette parent so I don't really have a dog in this fight, but it doesn't seem reasonable to put the onus on the new principal to make some kind of targeted outreach to specific jredshirt-inclined parents to say "we're going to follow DCPS policy on this point going forward".  If you're planning on some kind of special wink/nudge treatment from the school because you've gotten it before, and then the person who has allowed it in the past departs, wouldn't you think to check in regarding whether it will continue happening?

Basically the rules didn't change, the principal's willingess to ignore the rules changed.  It's not reasonable to expect a new admin to provide the same special off-the-books allowances as the previous one without any inquiry on your part, to the point you act like you've been denied due process when your special allowance is taken away.  [/quote]

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