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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bonkers thread. I’ve never rooted against people so hard as I do these parents. (And I generally support wiggle room.) they’re really saying the quiet part out loud. I’m sure they’ll get their way in the end, unfortunately.[/quote]

These parents think they can always get what they want, always have the system bend to their needs, etc.  These are those parents that want DCPS to have a strict absence policy for kids in other wards but want their kids to be excused for their trips to Paris because it’s educational.  [/quote]

A trip to Paris is educational. The fastest way to a defunded department of education is to not show an understanding of this. Taking away someone’s trip to Paris gets you nothing, and then gets what you have taken away.[/quote]

Missing school for a soccer tournament is also educational. So is attending the Westinghouse competition. Call CPS for any of this, call CPS for redshirting, while leaving other kids abused and you will get an immediate loss in support for institutions you want to be strong.

Loosen absentee policies on other wards if you want, but take the steps to make public schools the best they can be if you’re going to send your children there.[/quote]

By the way anti-redshirters, you know this is where things are headed next right? CPS investigates your trip to Paris.[/quote]

And what will CPS do exactly? I mean in a world of DEI it would be “nothing” which is the same as what they do when kids in other wards miss school and can’t even say where they were….[/quote]

They are desperate to justify holding back their kids to give them a perceived edge without putting any effort into their kid like the rest of us do. So, they are bringing up all kind of nonsense.   If anything if you don’t enroll your child in k on time or have them in an academic setting or homeschool, then cps might get involved due to educational neglect.  [/quote]

So getting back to the main topic … did the moms in question have any actual reason to hold their kids back other than they had late July birthdays or whatever? [/quote]

Funny thing, that poster will not comment that.  So, it sounds like no.[/quote]

No. If the kids had developmental delays or other SNs, these parents would channel their energies into getting IEPs that would enable them to start K late. I know people who have done this in DC successfully, and their kids had real, diagnosed issues and recommendations from experts that a late start would be beneficial in helping these kids have more normal school experiences. DCPS is pretty responsive to these arguments.

These families just assumed they could delay start because they knew it had been allowed previously at Lafayette (despite not being allowed in most of the city), didn't ever think to question whether it would continue under new leadership, and are now trying to change the rules for the whole city because of their mismanagement of their kids' education.

I guarantee if these kids had documented delays, DCPS would already have sought an accommodation just to shut these parents up. They don't.[/quote]

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