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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid missed the cut off date too and is quite verbally advanced for her age. We looked for a school with a combined 3/4 preK program and it is working well this year. She plays with all the four year olds and is grouped with them for certain activities.

The downside to this is that the 4 year olds will move to K next year and if there are no precocious 3 year old next year we’re kind of SOL. We’re looking to privates and hoping for aid. [/quote]

Why not just let her repeat preK4? I personally wouldn’t be in a rush to have one less year with my child…[/quote]

DCPS will only pay for 13 years (K-12) and if you lottery, 2 years of prek. They will not pay for additional school years unless there is a reason beyond parent preference. The way OP could do this is to send their child to a private prek3 program next year, and then lottery for prek4 the following year. Because the child will be "too old" for prek4 and prek4 isn't a required grade, then it will be up to the individual school whether or not the child can be in prek4. Another option is to send this child to prek3 and prek4 in private (repeating their prek3 year), and then in two years go to K. Because K is a required grade, DCPS will not force that child to go to 1st grade. Either way, OP will need to pay for a least a year of private. I have a child with an end of September birthday. We did DCPS Prek3, DCPS prek4, and then had her repeat a prek year at private before going on to K in private. She continued at that private and is now in 2nd grade and we plan to keep her in private. She was born 1 day before the cutoff and DCPS would not budge. I get it - it ensures that at least all the kids are within a year of each other. At my child's private school now, the 2nd grade class includes kids who turned 8 beginning end of May (all boys), as wells as kids who will turn 8 next summer (mostly girls). It's a 16 months spread which I imagine is harder for teachers. [/quote]

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