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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If principals have discretion, the Lafayette principal should make the 2025-2026 school year the last year that kids can be enrolled a year late and that policy should be broadcast far and wide. None of these families is asking DCPS for an extra year of schooling for their children; they just want K-12, same as everyone else. They’re not incurring extra expense for DCPS.

Yes, the parents were wrong just to assume that rules will be bent for them, wherever there is discretion, but a principal who has the discretion to allow these children to enroll in kindergarten, but is refusing to do so just to prove a point is doing a real disservice to these children. Making children skip kindergarten entirely because their parents didn’t enroll them in a timely manner is detrimental to the children’s scholastic progress. No principal would do this if their students’ best interests was their top priority. It’s nakedly punitive.[/quote]

These kids should go to first.   They have no special needs and no good reason to hold back.  Parents have all summer to prepare them.

One of my kids skipped k.  They missed nothing. [/quote]

Yeah can we talk about how DCPS kindergarten is actually the worst year? No math and an obsessive focus on phonics and no fun? I've sent two kids through DCPS elementary and K was by far the worst year. My older one missed the last four months bc of COVID and his life improved.[/quote]

That’s actually great if they are pushing reading skills.  It’s school.  They can have fun at home. Doesn’t sound like you value education. [/quote]

You're wrong. They can push skills and still be developmentally appropriate. Our parents learned to read in Kinder and still did fun things and weren't sitting at desks all day with only 15-20 mins recess like they do in many DCPS schools. [/quote]

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