Anonymous wrote:Is it true that if a child with a birthday after the 9/30 cut off goes through Early Stages and does PK3 that they have to repeat PK3 again the following year?

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Yes. My child had to do pk3 over since his birthday fell in October.

Is it true that if a child with a birthday after the 9/30 cut off goes through Early Stages and does PK3 that they have to repeat PK3 again the following year?

Anonymous wrote:OP what was the result of this? It is really relevant to anyone with a child who turns three between October and May, and receives Strong Start services.

bump.

That’s crazy. I’m glad it worked out.

OP here: They were indeed happy to have her…fought to get her enrolled - despite the fact that the city is providing no funding - and the transition was seamless. But it took multiple outside actors and officials to force OSSE to follow their own written regulations that allow for this enrollment (as an “exception” - huh?). I will not speculate as to why, but will note that everyone outside the agency was as baffled by the intransigence and apparent ignorance of existing regulations as we were.

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Anonymous wrote:Also this — charter schools hate enrolling new students after count day. They get no additional funding for them. So the charter school is potentially being nice to you because you are a current family while telling ES they are not setup to support your daughter.

This is what I came to say. You are asking them to take a very young student (will be youngest in the class) with special needs that cost them $, but they will not get credit for it. Not going to happen. Enroll in your local DCPS for this year, OP.

OP here: the charter has been clear they are happy to have her…as long as it won’t get their city contract revoked. They need enrollment, and this is a simple way to onboard a student who’s likely to stick around.

Do not kid yourself, if they were actually were happy to have her there would be zero hiccups.