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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if instead of Lafayette, it were a Ward 8 school where a few kids were moving from Pre-K to 1st because of this issue? Or is it simply inconceivable that any parent in Ward 8 would want this? Or insist on it when it is best for them and their class?[/quote]

So no answers to this one.[/quote]

What about if an un-housed child moves from pre-K in MCPS to DCPS and turns 6 before September 30th (MCPS cutoff is 9/1). The parent and previous teachers want the child to go to Kindergarten.

What would you say?[/quote]

You think this is some gotcha? the rules says - he goes to 1st then the principal has discretion to send him to K or retain in 1st. [/quote]

No no. You can’t have it both ways.

The current policy allows for discretion. You all anti-redshirters are arguing there should be no discretion.

The child would go to 1st and as Prall and Caruthers have said, teachers would differentiate their learning and if they failed 1st grade then they’d be retained.

I’m so sorry, but it definitely got ya. [/quote]

I think you are extremely confused. The current policy allows principals discretion. These folks had their principal say no. It’s that simple. Discretion for the principal does not mean do whatever rich white people want.[/quote]

The question is what type of discretion and why?

Why is a child with documented developmental disabilities being told to go to 1st?

Why is DCPS pulling students out of pre-K now and moving them to K when they’re already enrolled in DCPS prek4?

Why won’t they let a child moving from Florida with a clear age policy enter into K, the next consecutive grade?

So, either there is discretion and the discretion is abhorrent or there’s no discretion and DCPS is backpedaling to cover their own __, and/or the combination of above.

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