you have time. Last year my son turned 3 right before school started and we did it. Started around July 4th and by the end of August we were accident free.

No idea on the rules for DC charters but in MD its common practice for most preschools to require the child to be potty trained.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread on this topic from last summer:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/241936.page

A poster on page 3 says charters are exempt from the same rules as DCPS because they don't get head start funding.

That poster is wrong.

It's hard to find a link that proves you can't do something. Charter school law is very clear that kids can't be excluded except for very very specific reasons. Potty training isn't on the list. I don't know what else to say.

??? If the law is so clear, why can't you point us to it? It is actually not hard to find a link that proves you can't do something. Laws are all publicly available. If something is illegal, the law will tell you that.

Here are a few things I can find

http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/Enrolling-Your-Child/Enrollment-and-Lottery-Guidelines.aspx

Specifically this part:

According to the School Reform Act (Sec 38-1802.06), enrollment in public charter schools is open to all students who are residents of the District of Columbia, and if space is available, to non-resident students who pay tuition at the rate established by the State Education Agency. A public charter school may not limit enrollment based on student's race, color, religion, national origin, language spoken, intellectual or athletic ability.

That language, about "all students" is present all over charter school law.

There's also this:

http://chavezpolicies.wikispaces.com/file/view/DCPCSB+Lottery+%26+Enrollment+Guidelines+(adopted+08-09).pdf

A public charter school may not limit enrollment on the basis of a student's race,
color, religion, national origin, language spoken, intellectual or athletic ability,
measures of achievement or aptitude, or status as a student with special needs. A
public charter school may limit enrollment to specific grade levels.

That is to say that schools can't exclude students because they don't have skills.

I don't know how else to show it.

Talk with the director/head of your school directly. Then you won't have to wonder; you will know. Then you can decide what you want/need to do.

OP, we got to within a month of school and DC was still having almost daily accidents so I feel your pain. We went on vacation for a week that August and it just clicked. Or more likely DC realized he cared about going to the school and he knew he couldn't have accidents there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another thread on this topic from last summer:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/241936.page

A poster on page 3 says charters are exempt from the same rules as DCPS because they don't get head start funding.

That poster is wrong.

It's hard to find a link that proves you can't do something. Charter school law is very clear that kids can't be excluded except for very very specific reasons. Potty training isn't on the list. I don't know what else to say.

??? If the law is so clear, why can't you point us to it? It is actually not hard to find a link that proves you can't do something. Laws are all publicly available. If something is illegal, the law will tell you that.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to ask the preschool. Some have the requirement and some do not. My DS and DD went to a preschool that was also a daycare (am was preschool and pm was the aftercare). It started at age 2. There was no requirement for potty training. As a matter of fact, the school helped in the potty training process. I would not have sent my DC to a school that required potty training. Unless your child trains early it's simply way to much pressure on you, the school and your child.

Sorry to break it to you, but all schools in DC require potty training. It's a matter of which age. The DCJCC (which is the program I believe you refer to) is licensed to change diapers because they take 2 year olds.

Definitely not true. My kids have been in two different preschools and neither have required potty training, including in the 4s class. I don't know if there were any 4 year olds who weren't trained, but it wasn't a requirement of the school.

I agree with the pp that I wouldn't have sent my kid to a school that required kids to be potty trained by a certain age. Kids develop in different ways at different times, and I expect a school to be sensitive to different kids' developmental stages. Clearly I'm not asking too much, since both schools my kids went to understood that, and, indeed, were fabulous during the potty training experience (changing and cleaning up many accidents).

Anonymous wrote:Another thread on this topic from last summer:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/241936.page

A poster on page 3 says charters are exempt from the same rules as DCPS because they don't get head start funding.

That poster is wrong.

It's hard to find a link that proves you can't do something. Charter school law is very clear that kids can't be excluded except for very very specific reasons. Potty training isn't on the list. I don't know what else to say.