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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the objective is equitable options for every student, what DCPS should do would be for every child make a decision if they are K ready. Even if you are already enrolled in DCPS, have the same standards applied across the city so that children who are in PreK3 / PreK4 do not get social promotion into K. Reframe the message that some kids stick in PreK and not make it a thing for moving to K.  If a parent disagrees with the decision that the child is K ready, there is the appropriate supports in place. 
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I agree with this line of thought. In addition, allow the parents of summer babies to make that decision if they want to enroll their child in k or stay another year. The age gap is still acceptable and those kids would still complete high school as ~18 year olds.[/quote]

Then go private why should tax payers pay for an extra year of preschool?[/quote]

I never mentioned anything about tax payers pay for an extra year of preschool. I simply proposed to give the parents leeway to decide when their summer child should start K! 
And there is already a DCPS policy in place that students cannot repeat a school year. What I proposed is separate from retaining two years.[/quote]

If the child is in DCPS PK then that does mean an extra year of public PK. [/quote]

If you enroll your kid in PK4 and then decide the kid isn’t ready for K, that’s an extra year of Pre-K.  Thr logistics of that each year would be difficult to manage from a school standpoint and a staffing standpoint.[/quote]

This. Though I had a kid who would have been in PK3 during the Covid shutdown, and we had several kids in our PK4 class (including mine) with summer birthdays who were on the bubble in terms of maturity. We asked as a group if our kids could repeat PK4 given they'd missed PK3 and were the youngest in the grade and could use some additional time in PK. It was a hard no. We consoled ourselves that at least our kids went through K together. But K was a tough year and I got annoyed when we'd get feedback from the teachers that "oh larlo is taking too long to finish his phonics worksheet" or "oh larlo had to stay in at recess because he didn't follow the rules for lining up." Like yeah, well larlo turned 5 at the end of August and he doesn't have the same ability to pay attention as other kids in the grade and needs more time playing and running around so restricting recess for him is just shooting yourself in the foot.

They didn't care though. If we could have afforded private we would have done that, but we couldn't.[/quote]

This sounds like terrible teaching. Most schools don’t allow kids to miss recess and most kindergartners aren’t doing a ton of worksheets. My September kid missed prek4 because of COVID and Kindergarten was great, mostly because of the amazing teachers. [/quote]

Or, something more is going on.  [/quote]

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