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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many years ago I started a thread on this site about a Washington Post article discussing FCPS’ future. I’ll try to find the thread later. The writer’s predictions weren’t wrong.[/quote]

Not PP, but this 2014 talks about the strain a rising immigrant population had at that time put a strain on resources, pulling money away from more affluent schools, to provide resources to schools whose student bodies are comprised of families that are poor and often illiterate in their primary language.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-fairfax-county-kindergarten-classes-school-systems-future-comes-into-focus/2014/06/28/1ced10d2-f25e-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html[/url]

"Grace Choi, a kindergarten language teacher at London Towne, said children from poor families often arrive for the first day of school not knowing the alphabet, a standard lesson in preschool. [b]Many cannot differentiate animal words such as cat, lion and cheetah or food words such as potato, eggs and tomato."[/b]

"At Springfield’s Lynbrook Elementary, 502 out of the 637 students speak Spanish at home, school records show, and 89 percent of those Spanish-speaking children were born in the United States."

"In other schools . . . they can see the other students and want to make a difference in themselves," said Moran, 32, who came to the United States from Mexico 10 years ago. "In Hybla Valley, it's 90 percent Hispanic. What the problem is, I think, is the style of life is all the same."[/quote]

:roll: 
Not all kids enter K reading. Even at the posh schools.

FCPS should expand free preK. 
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