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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They’re still at it

https://wapo.st/405wrSF[/quote]

Why are these people getting so much press? This applies to like 10 children (per the article)?  [/quote]
Why is DCPS digging in if this isn’t a widespread problem? What kind of resources are they willing to commit to fighting so few students enrolling late?[/quote]

DCPS isn't "digging in." They are finally enforcing a two-decades old policy that the entire rest of the city follows, at the small handful of upper NW elementaries that imagined themselves somehow exempt from this policy.

Also, the policy doesn't say that a kid will never be allowed to do K at 6. It's just that in DC, parents are not allowed to unilaterally make that decision. You have to do it through the school. This is the rule every other family in DC follows. That 10 families at wealthy schools in the city's richest neighborhoods somehow think it's "unfair" for them to follow it does not mean DC is "digging in." They are following the rule.

I live in another ward, have a kid with a summer birthday, and I had zero opportunity to redshirt. But these Lafayette parents should get it because.... they are richer than me? They can afford housing in more expensive neighborhoods? They can afford extra time in private PK whereas I relied on DCPS PK for financial reasons?

Tell me why they get special rules. What is it about their situation that means they deserve a separate system?[/quote]

I can tell you’re triggered being reminded that you live east of the park.

Do you get free after care?[/quote]

These people are comically horrible! No surprise at all that DCPS wants to punish them now (by... making them follow rules). So satisfying to see this all play out, to be honest.[/quote]

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