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Anonymous wrote:The word is poor not poors. Poor is an adjective.

There is also no word "littles." For the posters on here who think they are so smart, well, they're not.

Poor can be a noun as well.

“Eat the rich”

“Alms for the poor”.

“Poors” is an edgy millennial-driven change to language (like “the gays”). The person who said “poors” probably was satirizing people who don’t care about poor people and do so daily in a more subtle and dismissive way.

I am the PP who started this and it did not read as if PP was "satirizing" people ...she WAS people.

Anonymous wrote:The word is poor not poors. Poor is an adjective.

There is also no word "littles." For the posters on here who think they are so smart, well, they're not.

Poor can be a noun as well.

“Eat the rich”

“Alms for the poor”.

“Poors” is an edgy millennial-driven change to language (like “the gays”). The person who said “poors” probably was satirizing people who don’t care about poor people and do so daily in a more subtle and dismissive way.

There is ONE student listed as a PreK student at BE. That student is like a 3- or 4-year-old who receives speech services. There is no PreK or PEP classroom there.

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Anonymous wrote:On the at-a-glance, there is 1 "PreK" class listed, but that designation is for all programs for students prior to kindergarten. Prekindergarten is a class offered to students on income basis, and it is not at BE. The "PreK" class at BE is a PEP class for pre-school age special ed students.

Many MCPS schools have Prekindergarten, Head Start, and now Pre-K Plus, but eligibility is based on income.

PreK is the year before Kindergarten. Special education children in PEP classes are absolutely in PreK. Putting it in quotations is really tone deaf.

It's in quotations because there is obvious confusion, due to the wording MCPS chooses for categorization. In MCPS, PreK is the prekindergarten class that I teach, which is open to income-eligible children who turn 4 before Sept 1. PreK Plus is a similar program that is full day instead of half day. Head Start is a federally funded program that is open to income-eligible children (lower income threshold than PreK and PreK Plus) who turn 4 before Sept, and has more oversight than the previous mentioned programs. PEP is a special education program for students 0-5 years old. All of these programs are listed in the grade level category of PreK, but only one of them is specifically called PreK. Special ed students in PEP would not be classified as PreK students by most people in elementary education. They are PEP students, just as students in Head Start are Head Start students, etc. In fact, most of the PEP parents I've worked with (I teach the PreK side of a PEP Collab class) are adamant about their children being referred to as PEP, not PreK.

Additionally, special ed students in PEP classes may be 3 years old. If your definition of PreK is the year before kindergarten, then these students are not in PreK by that margin.

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Anonymous wrote:You can also qualify for pre-K at the Montgomery county public schools if English is not the child's primary language.

False. MCPS Pre-K is solely income based. Pre-K students may qualify for ESOL services *once enrolled in MCPS Pre-K*, but they can't qualify due to anything besides the family's income (or a disability in the case of PEP). Please don't spread misinformation.

From the MCPS website:

Who is eligible to apply for MCPS Prekindergarten and Head Start Programs?
The MCPS Prekindergarten/Head Start program serves low-income families with children who will be four years old by September 1, 2020. This includes children with disabilities. There are limited spaces available in certain areas of Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park for Head Start income-eligible children who will be three years old by September 1, 2020.

--MCPS ESOL teacher

Kids with learning difficulties may also qualify. Maybe the PEP pre-K is a different program, but I am not sure. To fill the class, there are also sometimes spots for kids without these challenges and it isn’t income based, or at least there can be non-income based slots if no one else claims them. Again, I am not positive the exact details.

You're referring to the PEP Collaboration program.

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Anonymous wrote:You can also qualify for pre-K at the Montgomery county public schools if English is not the child's primary language.

False. MCPS Pre-K is solely income based. Pre-K students may qualify for ESOL services *once enrolled in MCPS Pre-K*, but they can't qualify due to anything besides the family's income (or a disability in the case of PEP). Please don't spread misinformation.

From the MCPS website:

Who is eligible to apply for MCPS Prekindergarten and Head Start Programs?
The MCPS Prekindergarten/Head Start program serves low-income families with children who will be four years old by September 1, 2020. This includes children with disabilities. There are limited spaces available in certain areas of Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park for Head Start income-eligible children who will be three years old by September 1, 2020.

--MCPS ESOL teacher

Kids with learning difficulties may also qualify. Maybe the PEP pre-K is a different program, but I am not sure. To fill the class, there are also sometimes spots for kids without these challenges and it isn’t income based, or at least there can be non-income based slots if no one else claims them. Again, I am not positive the exact details.

Anonymous wrote:You can also qualify for pre-K at the Montgomery county public schools if English is not the child's primary language.

False. MCPS Pre-K is solely income based. Pre-K students may qualify for ESOL services *once enrolled in MCPS Pre-K*, but they can't qualify due to anything besides the family's income (or a disability in the case of PEP). Please don't spread misinformation.

From the MCPS website:

Who is eligible to apply for MCPS Prekindergarten and Head Start Programs?
The MCPS Prekindergarten/Head Start program serves low-income families with children who will be four years old by September 1, 2020. This includes children with disabilities. There are limited spaces available in certain areas of Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park for Head Start income-eligible children who will be three years old by September 1, 2020.

--MCPS ESOL teacher

Anonymous wrote:Head Start is funded by Fed and is only available to US citizen and legal immigrants. MCPS perK is offered to kids from poor families who dont meet Head Start requirement.

The students may be legal immigrants. but the parents are not. Yet another perk for entering the country illegally.

The word is poor not poors. Poor is an adjective.

There is also no word "littles." For the posters on here who think they are so smart, well, they're not.

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Anonymous wrote:Pre-K is for the poors.

My second grader is learning subject verb agreement and which word to place the "s" on. You should join his online class!

OP not sure I'd Bethesda has it but all of the pre-k in this area/ moco are for special education students. Otherwise if this fits your situation i would i do not see them on the list.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/special-education/programs-services/preschool.aspx

Clearly you are new to DCUMs. The poors is used frequently on this website.

I'm actually not. Have been reading for many years. Frequency of use does not make it any less racist or derogatory. It only makes wealthy or wanna be wealthy feel wealthier.

I used to work in plenty of poor schools that had way mire white students than minority students. Only you think poor is a racist term. Spend some time in Appalachia and then report back to us. Poor is an income designation.

You can also qualify for pre-K at the Montgomery county public schools if English is not the child's primary language.

Head Start is funded by Fed and is only available to US citizen and legal immigrants. MCPS perK is offered to kids from poor families who dont meet Head Start requirement.

Anonymous wrote:On the at-a-glance, there is 1 "PreK" class listed, but that designation is for all programs for students prior to kindergarten. Prekindergarten is a class offered to students on income basis, and it is not at BE. The "PreK" class at BE is a PEP class for pre-school age special ed students.

Many MCPS schools have Prekindergarten, Head Start, and now Pre-K Plus, but eligibility is based on income.

PreK is the year before Kindergarten. Special education children in PEP classes are absolutely in PreK. Putting it in quotations is really tone deaf.

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost certainly a head start program. That is what the Rosemary Hills PK class is.

Prek and Head Start are 2 different programs with different income requirements to qualify and different program requirements. The program at Rosemary Hills is prek, not Head Start.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pre-K is for the poors.

My second grader is learning subject verb agreement and which word to place the "s" on. You should join his online class!

OP not sure I'd Bethesda has it but all of the pre-k in this area/ moco are for special education students. Otherwise if this fits your situation i would i do not see them on the list.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/special-education/programs-services/preschool.aspx

Clearly you are new to DCUMs. The poors is used frequently on this website.

I'm actually not. Have been reading for many years. Frequency of use does not make it any less racist or derogatory. It only makes wealthy or wanna be wealthy feel wealthier.