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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If OP is only looking at PK, they will be fine at a DCPS or TR or MV8. Btw, my kid went to JO Wilson for PK and there was virtually no screen use. I am sure they use screens a lot in upper grades (one of the reasons we left) but it's not a thing in PK. The occasional dance video, that's it. No kids on tablets, no academics taught via app, etc. It was just songs and play and art and recess, plus like 15 minutes a day if small group time to work on pre-literacy and early math skills as prep for K. It was great. I have high standards for schools and we loved JO for PK.

Past PK, the picture is more complicated. I will note that when I toured TR4, I saw multiple classrooms of 2nd and 3rd graders all in devices wearing headphones. It was an immediate no for me. And they were classes with subs. I thought it was crazy that this is what they were doing on a tour day, but at least it's honest.[/quote]

Your past experience does not portray the current.  Central has recently passed down mandatory academic requirements in ECE which includes the use of screens.  Lots of title 1 ECE uses screens already for math and ELA.[/quote]

Link to these new "mandatory academic requirements" in ECE in DCPS? I'm PP and we are only a couple years out of PK at JOW.

Also ECE includes Kindergarten. I think DCPS kindergarten is too academic, and yes, includes too much screen time (specifically iReady). But PK and K are pretty different at most DCPS schools. PK teachers in DCPS are required to have a masters in early childhood education, whereas K teachers are much less likely to have it (and often teachers flex between K, 1st, and 2nd from year to year, depending on the school needs). So there's a separation between the PK program and the K-5 program.

I would also tend to choose JOW over TR because of facilities. The JO facilities when we were there were okay but not great. I liked that the PK classrooms were in their own wing with a separate entrance for pick up and drop off. But the playground was pretty meh and the building was old. Starting in the fall they will have a brand new building including a brand new separate playground for PK that will be right off their classrooms. The new design looks really gorgeous -- check out the renderings on their website.

I was so underwhelmed by the TR facilities when we toured. I hated the idea of my kid playing on that tiny playground right up against traffic on Florida Avenue, with all the noise and air pollution from traffic -- things get really bottlenecked at Florida and 4th IME. Also having observed drop off and pick up in that area many time during my walking commute, it just looks chaotic. I'm sure TR has nurturing teachers and a perfectly good PK program (as I said, PK in DC tends to be pretty good across the board) but that building was a major turn off for me, and if I could instead send my kid to a brand new school a few blocks away with a brand new campus? It's a no brainer.[/quote]

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