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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These rules were written for a school system that should be and is mostly concerned with a massive population of under served kids who are way more likely to be lost and need to be found by the system … than they were written for over involved parents who are on top of their kids and the schools.

Plenty of dcps kids go to K a year late, mostly because the system has to find them and get them to school. Clearly there should be flexibility for those principals and schools to let those kids do K at 6 (and often it is 7) if they’ve not been to school.

Similarly, the law about cumpulsory school at 5 is a truancy law. It’s not for parents using private school or pre K. It’s for parents who don’t put their kids in school at all.

The strict cut offs for PreK are designed to prevent people from getting a free year of extra public school. Everyone is entitled, in DC, to K-12, no matter how old you are when you start (within reason). Hence principal discretion. Yes, if you start in prek 3, you have to follow these cutoffs to the letter. But if you put your kid in private preK the rules are not written to prevent a school from letting you start K late. And certainly the rules are written to take care of the kids and let them have their best chance, regardless of whether their kids are meddling wealthy white people in Chevy chase or struggling parents of whatever background who can’t for whatever reason get their kids into school on time and as required by law. [/quote]

Sorry this is indistinguishable from the rules shouldn't apply to me because I'm wealthy and white. There are reasons beyond compulsory education for enforcing cutoffs. Someone has to be the youngest kid in the class and unless there are legitimate learning or social emotional reasons to hold someone back, I want my kid to test better and be better at sports are not legitimate reasons for giving parents whatever they want.[/quote]

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