So -- how about we use this pre-school attendence to increase the number of enrolled students at schools to keep them from closing.
Let' say that preschool center are opened first at schools which are scheduled close and then throughout the school system starting in all the lowest performing/proficient areas.
And Daycares need to have a monitored curricullum.
Rob Ramson
Rob Ramson
On Mar 8, 2013 4:18 PM, "Eric J. Jones" <ejjones.threed@gmail.com> wrote:
-- His daughter is in DCPS now.
On Mar 8, 2013 4:12 PM, "Tony Humphries" <ubalt@hotmail.com> wrote:
and nare one of them are on the Council any more!
Catania... well, he's there to stay I suppose.
Mendelson wont do nothing either cause he is NOT affected...none of the Ward 3 school are. Even though they are overcrowded they WILL not force-move them to lesser filled schools.
To: ward5@yahoogroups.com
From: ejjones.threed@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:26:05 -0500
Subject: RE: [ward5] Re: Barry Wants to Make D.C. Pre-School Mandatory (dcist.com)
Tony
Again I have sat with Kwame and Catania reading to our kids. Further Michael, Kwame and Fenty's kids were all part of that system as well as Phil Mandelson's daughter.
On Mar 8, 2013 2:32 PM, "Tony Humphries" <ubalt@hotmail.com> wrote:
Eric --
Correct --> DC Council is apathetic to the issue. I haven't seen any actions taken by DC gov't to negate this observation!!!
To: ward5@yahoogroups.com
From: ericindc@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 19:13:05 +0000
Subject: [ward5] Re: Barry Wants to Make D.C. Pre-School Mandatory (dcist.com)
Eric J.- I didn't undersand the first part of your response. I think what Tony is trying to refute is the notion that there is this huge surge in enrollment at the PreK level. The fact of the matter is that while there is a surge in enrollment, it is by non-DC residents who illegally/illicitly enroll their kids in DC schools because their public school system doesn't have a similar offering.
As to Tony's editorializing - while he may be wrong on some of these facts (I have no idea what these folks do with their kids and don't care), I think his point is that DC Council is apathetic to the issue. I haven't seen any actions taken by DC gov't to negate this observation.
Tony - sound about right or am I misreading you?
--- In ward5@yahoogroups.com, "Eric J. Jones" <ejjones.threed@...> wrote:
>
> Tony
>
> There are several issues with your statement. First off encouraging the
> states to do so will do little to change as many of those folks pay to send
> their kids to those schools. In addition many of those folks decide to send
> their kids to schools rank lower than their local schools for various
> reasons not just for pre-k.
>
> In addition it isn't about not having kids and your constant statements
> about those not having kids not caring about families is problematic. The
> majority of thr volunteers in our local schools are parents with kids in
> schools. When we go to read to elementary school kids most of the men who
> are with us are married with no children or single. The head of our ward
> five council on education aren't parents yet but do as much work as many if
> not most of the parents in our ward.
>
> Likewise many who provide many of the resources for our institutions
> likewise aren't parents and your statements make it seem that because they
> don't have kids they don't care.
>
> Further Kwame didn't/doesn't live in ward 8 he lives in 7 and originally
> his kids went to Langdon in ward 5. Likewise many including Michael Brown
> and Adrian Fenty sent their kids to school in Ward 4 where they lived. They
> didn't go to school in ward 3.
>
> In addition many including Cheh, Bonds, Barry etc have raised kids in the
> city as well as DCPS. So it isn't about caring for families and children as
> there are many types of families in this city and they represent them all.
> Remember it was Gray and Orange if I'm not mistaken who pushed the pre k
> program originally and their kids are grown and successful and weren't in
> DCPS at the time they pushed it.
> On Mar 8, 2013 10:48 AM, "Tony Humphries" <ubalt@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Shouldnt he be ASKING Va and MD to make it mandatory... if they did then
> > DCPS PS and PK would have more slots for DC residents.
> > All the FREE babysitting from 3-5 yr old of PG and Alex/Arlington
> > city parents who drop their kids off at DCPS and DC Charter school would
> > drop tremendously.
> >
> > ^^^^--- if we had council members who care about family, children, and
> > parents would have noticed that. Before currently felon and ex-councilman
> > Harry Thomas Jr was addressing before he got into trouble. But then again
> > most of the Council with children, including Kwame Brown who sent his kids
> > to Ward 3 schools instead of his IN bound and IN range Ward 8 local
> > elementary school. *shrug* Anywho.. thats my editorial.
> >
> > Tony
> > ------------------------------
> > To: ward5@yahoogroups.com
> > From: WKPW3@...
> > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:04:48 -0500
> > Subject: [ward5] Barry Wants to Make D.C. Pre-School Mandatory (dcist.com)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://dcist.com/2013/03/barry_wants_to_make_preschool_manda.php
> > Barry Wants to Make D.C. Pre-School Mandatory
> > [image: 03072013_pre.jpg]
> > *Image via Shutterstock*
> > Echoing President Obama State of the Union call for universal pre-school<http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-14/politics/37092427_1_childhood-education-quality-preschool-program-preschool-providers>,
> > earlier this week Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) introduced
> > legislation that would make preschool mandatory for all D.C. children.
> >
> > Under the provisions of the bill, D.C. law would be changed to mandate
> > that all three-year-olds attend pre-school; currently, school is only
> > mandatory for kids five or older. If the bill passed, kids could attend a
> > public, independent, private or parochial pre-school.
> >
> > D.C. is already somewhat ahead of the curve, though. Ever since it
> > guaranteed a pre-school spot to any kid who wants it, some 13,000 of the
> > 15,000 three- and four-year-old are attending local pre-schools<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-dc-public-school-for-3-year-olds-is-already-the-norm/2013/02/20/e1f84426-7b6a-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html>.
> > Their popularity has been such that the a large part of the enrollment
> > increases in D.C. public schools has been driven by pre-school programs<http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/03/how-dcs-public-schools-are-wooing-new-families/4869/>
> > .
> >
> > Contact the author <http://dcist.com/staff.php> of this article or email
> > tips@... with further questions, comments or tips.
> >
> > By Martin Austermuhle <http://dcist.com/profile/dcist_martin> in News<http://dcist.com/news>on March
> > 7, 2013 10:30 AMView Comments"
> > href="http://dcist.com/2013/03/07/barry_wants_to_make_preschool_manda.php"
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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