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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
My kids learned to read in kindergarten.[/quote]

You could have worked with them prior.  Mine were reading well before k.   We worked with them as did the preschool. [/quote]

Can you stop bragging incessantly about what a great mom you are? Amazing, you took care of your special needs kid, who learned to read in kindergarten and took calculus in 10th.

Only thing you’re not saying is what college they go to.  I’m guessing it’s underwhelming for how big your ego is, and you’re blaming your child’s perceived failure on redshirted kids that stole their spot at the “good” colleges.

How lame![/quote]

Lame is you not putting the same effort into your kids.   Just imagine what a better outcome they have if you put more time into them.  I don’t care what college my kids go to as long as it’s a good fit for them.  It’s not about college.  It’s about getting a strong education.  [/quote]

DP: ironically you are arguing how entitled Lafayette parents are while shaming parents for not doing more for their kids. Is this what you think about all parents in the city? The ones working 2+ jobs to keep the lights on? They’re shitty parents because they can’t tutor their kid to be reading “way before K” (when, exactly, would that be anyway?)? Is that what you’re saying?[/quote]

Stop using others as talking points.  These are rich families gaming the system.  They are not working multiple jobs as if they were they put their kids in k for the free child care. So, yes, these rich parents who have time to advocate can use that them to teach their kids to read.  Really, even 15 minutes a day. [/quote]

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