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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to see two lotteries - one for PS3 and PS4, and then a whole new set for all students at K, with no right to stay through unless you were at your IB school. This would give people the all-day care they need for 3's and 4's without all the stress of trying to pick a philosophy, a language, a feeder program and a commute they could live with forever at such an early age.

Yes, the kids would likely change schools for K, but that has historically been the case when kids transitioned from preschool to kindergarten. And I say this as a Stokes parent who did get lucky in the lottery, but would have liked to keep my daughter home another year without losing our spot.[/quote]

Yeah, I'll bet you'd like to see this.  Thank goodness you're not making the decisions on this.  This would be HUGELY unfair to the parents who have no choice to keep their kids home in Pre-S or Pre-K (because all adults are working out of home all day) and to actually think it's worth it to make those parents go through the hell of lotteries TWICE just so you guys can keep your kids home full or part time up to K is so unbelievably selfish, I'm stunned.

Of course, everyone's entitled to their opinion, and this is what would work for you so yeah, you have every right to express it.  I just find the lack of understanding around why there are free public schools in DC in the first place and why - once free pre-S and pre-K were established here - it would be unthinkable to make everyone go through it again for K and up.[/quote]

Actually, it's not selfish at all. There are SO many parents who ONLY put their kids into PS and PK for the "free daycare," then pull them out at K either to move to the burbs or to go to their IB school that it creates a de facto K lottery anyway. You see it all over DCUM, "it's fine to leave your kid at XYZ charter or neighborhood school until K or 1, but you need to move before grades 1 or 2." People are already going through the "hell of lotteries" year after year, in case you hadn't noticed.

Where do you get the idea that parents would HAVE to keep their kids home? That's nonsense. This might actually free up spaces from parents who would like to keep their kids home at 3 or 4 but feel pressured to send their kids to school in order to hold a spot. Please read thoroughly before you comment, thanks.[/quote]

That's fine to participate in the system as it is - if you want to put your kid in for the free daycare and pull out for K, fine.  And yes, that does open up spots to people who weren't lucky enough to get in in PS and PK.  The selfish ar comes from the idea that DC public schools should change to offer a part time option, or to lament the lack of that part time option.  You have the right to lament or complain, but to me it's selfish.

Not sure what you mean on point of parents having to keep their kids home?  What I meant was that the majority of parents sending their kids to public school do NOT have the option of keeping their kids home - they are working and cannot stay home with their kids even if they wanted to.  To change it so that even fewer full schoolday slots are available would be screwing those parents who need full schoolday slots.  (Never mind the fact that part-day isn't an option for public schools b/c of funding, but that's a side issue to the conversation here where people want it to be different).[/quote]

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