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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would use free prek3 and prek4 and then repeat prek4 if needed at a private school. [/quote]

And then stay in private?  Because if you send your first grade age kid to the school they won't put them in Kindergarten.

The most absurd version of this I've seen is a family that moved from another state with a kid with a late September birthday.  In their previous state the cut off was. Sept. 1, so he hadn't been to Kindergarten.  He also hadn't had much of any preschool, because he had severe ADHD and was kicked out of every school he tried.

DCPS forced him into first grade, and then refused to evaluate for an IEP, based on the fact that they claimed his mother had "neglected" him by not sending him to Kindergarten the year before.  [/quote]

This is abuse. By DCPS.[/quote]

I know DCPS is terrible but I don't actually believe this story. We are missing info. DCPS would not deny an IEP evaluation for a kid with a diagnosed special needs, especially if they had documentation for inability to enroll him in private PK. They can be mindless rule followers, but the risk of a lawsuit there is too high. They would, at minimum, do the IEP eval and then argue the child could do first with an IEP plan to provide supports.

Educational neglect can actually a reason for creating an IEP, so it doesn't make sense that DCPS would deny an evaluation to punish the family for supposed neglect. If they suspected neglect, they'd be MORE likely to do the IEP.[/quote]

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