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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]

I'm surprised your school allows you to do this. Absenteeism rules are pretty clear for DCPS, and I don't see anywhere that there is any exception for PS3. Since PS3 is not guaranteed, your child should have been expelled by now if the school were following the rules.[/quote]
It's a charter school, not DCPS, and absences don't count against the school's rating until PK4, so the school doesn't care at all. And I can't for the life of me think why you or anyone else would care. As noted somewhere upthread, kids in PS-3 are out constantly. I still don't get why you think it's not healthy.[/quote]

I am the 1st person that questioned your stance, the others have been new posters.  I think this is wrong on so many levels.  Please don't give me that "this is what my tax dollars pay for".  No it's not.  Free PS was started for kids that actually need it to be on even playing field with privileged kids at the K level.  Your tax dollars are the same as somebody from CT (which pays more state per capita than us).  You are getting a $20k private education for free (worth far more than your property taxes).  The fact that you don't have the decency to consider your kid's classmates and and continuity astounds me.  You are a privileged POS.  If your kid is not ready for school then keep him/her home, don't use the system to satisfy your personal needs.  I dare you to mention your charter's name.  I promise you that the charter board would take great issue if this were true.  At my highly regarded charter, the school stresses the importance of attendance for the PS kid.  In fact, classmates have received special letters once they received 4 unexcused absences.[/quote]

Wow, it doesn't take much to get you riled up! There were two posters who questioned me, one who said it wasn't healthy, and the other who got in a huff about absenteeism rules at DCPS. I am genuinely curious about why you would think it's not healthy to give your kid a mental health break now and then, with the full blessing of their teachers and the administration. I think it's funny that you think the PCSB would take issue with it, but I'll take my chances.

It's nice to think about the good old days when preschool was set up for low-income people in DC, but that ship has sailed if you hadn't noticed. Perhaps you didn't see the DCUM thread in which people were routinely reporting household incomes of 200-400K; I think it's fair to say that an awful lot of people are using the system to satisfy their personal needs. Obviously I'm not at your highly regarded charter; I'm sure that whatever the three-year-olds are doing there requires near-perfect attendance by all students in order for the program to be successful. That is not the case at our charter, needless to say. I did say in my original post that we would not want to pull our kid out if the program was more structured, which will be the case for us next year.[/quote]

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