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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]
Well, good for you. Most of us don't have the option to keep our very small children home all day with a single caregiver or send them to a playgroup for a short time period. The system is also not structured so that you can opt out of PS and PK because you will be literally shut out of nearly everything by K. So you can talk a great game about unstructured time for preschoolers, but it's not feasible for the vast majority of parents on this board, who are trying to take advantage of public schools in DC. [b]We try to keep our DC home from school one day a week to play with grandma and have a nice long nap, but that wouldn't work for most families[/b], and it certainly won't work once we move to a more structured program.[/quote]

Do you really keep your kid home once a week?  You can't really think that is healthy, can you?[/quote]
Of course I do. Why on earth wouldn't it be healthy? The school is fine with it, and my child has met or exceeded all of the standards, such as they are, for PS-3. What's the problem?[/quote]

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