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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

What’s the difficulty in management?
It is actually a win-win resolution for everyone: the parents can decide during pk4 if their child is ready for K or not. They can stay through if the child is ready or move to private, then they can come back to public if they wish so for the compulsory K. No extra cost and no management burden incurred for public schools. The parents are absorbing the cost, but at least they have a choice. This is a reasonable choice. And it is a win long term for the child and any future classrooms that the child will be in. Plus, they would still be 18 by the time they graduate.[/quote]

Why is it so hard for you to follow the rules?   If you had a good reason they might work with you but you don’t.  [/quote]

What is the good rationale behind a September 30th date? And rules are meant to be challenged and improved. That’s a good motto to teach our children if we want them to grow up and go on to make a positive change in the world.[/quote]

I don’t know the rationale behind the September 30th date but I think it is reasonable to align age with 1st day of school. Your child must be 5 by the first day to enter kindergarten. There really aren’t that many kids in each class with a late August or September birthday. My kid is a late September bday and there is only one other child with an August birthday. Someone has to be the youngest. I am also a teacher and suburban school districts aren’t as lenient about age as the letter suggests. [/quote].

Palo Alto says at a minimum a child has to be 5. Every district is different. If DCPS wanted to do it right it would hire the best expert from the top child development center to determine the cutoff[/quote]

They have experts.  You just don’t agree with them.  No need to hire someone bias.  If you want to hire them you pay for it.  [/quote]

Ha. DCPS has experts the way Robert Kennedy Jr is a doctor.

Want equity? Adopt NY public schools cutoff. [b]Why should a child in DC benefit[/b] from a later cutoff?[/quote]

This is incredibly stupid! Why should a child benefit? Because public education policy is meant for the benefit of children.[/quote]

So get a really good, highly educated public education policy expert. Not whatever dated rule exists now.[/quote]

I’m wondering where that “follow the rules” harpy is now. From Mr. Goulet statement it seems that the rules do permit holding back, it’s just the school and administrators decided to reinterprets them unreasonably strict.[/quote]

He says principals have discretion, but this principal decided not to use it. The parents tried to elevate and get the principal in trouble and got a very different reaction. Good. You can’t say you favor principal’s discretion and then try to get the principal fired for not doing what you want.[/quote]

When you’re paid generously from public money you’re supposed to serve the children and parents in the community that pays your salary, not implement a whacky DEI agenda.

Your job is to work with the parents, not fight them, retaliate left and right and treat them like criminals. If you can’t do that you should make room for someone else to take over, either resigning or being fired, which is the way things will likely end up.[/quote]

But again - you interpret "fighting them" as using their discretion to reach a result that a select few parents disagree with.  That doesn't make it "fighting". [/quote]

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