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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^25 kids in a classroom for prek3/prek4 - never heard of a class that big.  Which school was this?[/quote]

Seriously?  This is common in DCPS and charters.  [/quote]

Not ours.  PS-3 was 19 kids with 3 adults.  PK-4 is 18 with 2 adults.[/quote]

Which school?  1:6 for PS3 is pretty good.  Still would want to know what the structure and expectations are though, because again, we're talking a very long day for very small children.  If others are having a better experience than we've had, I'm glad.  But after seeing it from the inside, I'm still philosophically opposed to the public preschool model, though.  If you have no other option for care or the child is coming from an impoverished background, I get it, though I still think ten hours of structure is too much.  [/quote]

Still waiting for you to name the school that has 25 kids in a classroom and 10 hr days...  [/quote]

Lots of schools offer before care starting at 7:30 and after care ending at 6.  You do the math.  In many areas preschool is 3-4 hours and not every day of the week.  It's not intended to be daycare.  I have a niece who qualifies for head start in my hometown (because of a developmental delay), and as a public program there it does not run all day.  And no, I am not naming the school because I'm not an idiot and I'm not outing myself here.  You are certainly free to disagree with me if you wish.  But the fact remains the ratios you are all throwing out here are not THAT much better than the ones at my school.[/quote]
If I'm reading your story right, the problem is that daycare is too expensive in DC? You don't want a full-day program and it's too expensive to keep sending your kid to daycare. Lord, I hear that. This is the downside to DC's competitive preschool for all system. The upside is that, if you are very, very lucky, your kid might be learning Spanish or Chinese or attending some other program that puts early education in most of the country to shame. My friends in other parts of the country can't believe that our kid is learning Mandarin at a free public school. It's not great for every kid, that is for sure. [/quote]

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