CommuniKids Preschool in Tenleytown offering FREE Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 for DC Residents!

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Anonymous wrote:WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.

Oh please!

This is an awesome opportunity. I am a ward 4 parent already at a charter but I think it's great this is being offered. Ward 3 parents should have access (and I say access very lightly as the demand would far outweigh the supply) to free pk. Their tax dollars go into the system just like my family's. I have access to many charters from where I live. Many of my neighbors in ward 4,5 and 1 also make about the same to those in ward 3. There are many PK4 families that continue to be shut out of their neighborhood school. Why should our ward 3 neighbors have to pay two more years of private preschool (and let's admit it preschool and daycare on that side of town is also higher) when they are paying the same taxes as everyone else (often more). Stop being selfish. Either you want PK to he needs based or not. You can't say oh it's ok for my Petworth family that makes $200k a year (and has more equity) but not ok for a ward 3 family with higher mortgage, higher property taxes making same income to have access to pk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.

Oh please!

This is an awesome opportunity. I am a ward 4 parent already at a charter but I think it's great this is being offered. Ward 3 parents should have access (and I say access very lightly as the demand would far outweigh the supply) to free pk. Their tax dollars go into the system just like my family's. I have access to many charters from where I live. Many of my neighbors in ward 4,5 and 1 also make about the same to those in ward 3. There are many PK4 families that continue to be shut out of their neighborhood school. Why should our ward 3 neighbors have to pay two more years of private preschool (and let's admit it preschool and daycare on that side of town is also higher) when they are paying the same taxes as everyone else (often more). Stop being selfish. Either you want PK to he needs based or not. You can't say oh it's ok for my Petworth family that makes $200k a year (and has more equity) but not ok for a ward 3 family with higher mortgage, higher property taxes making same income to have access to pk.

+1. Good for them--seems only a few spots will be offered here, but maybe others will eventually open.

-another Ward 4, relatively high-income (350K) family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.

Sickening are people who assume everyone in Ward 3 is rich.

[Anonymous]

I'm sickened by the "sickening" PP. Get tf over yourself.

[Anonymous]

My favorite is that $350k is "relatively" high income. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite is that $350k is "relatively" high income. Wow.

+1. And that person was not from Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.

Are you also sickened by the large and growing number of affluent people in other wards who are taking advantage of free pre-K and citywide charter schools, which were originally conceived to help the less fortunate? Or have they somehow earned their access by virtue of moving into a gentrifying neighborhood?

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite is that $350k is "relatively" high income. Wow.

+1. And that person was not from Ward 3.

Lol, that was me. Judging from professions, most of my neighbors are in the same range, so don't consider it super high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite is that $350k is "relatively" high income. Wow.

+1. And that person was not from Ward 3.

Lol, that was me. Judging from professions, most of my neighbors are in the same range, so don't consider it super high.

Just because you live in an affluent bubble doesn't mean this isn't a high income. Please gain some self awareness.

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Anonymous wrote:WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.

Sickening are people who assume everyone in Ward 3 is rich.

Thank you. I live in Ward 3. With my husband and 12 month old son. In a one bedroom apartment. We pay nearly $24K a year on day care and make a combined HHI of....wait for it....$120K. WE need PK-3 options, thank for this and hope it's still available when my son is old enough to attend.

[Anonymous]

This is a great opportunity, and I hope other private preschools do the same. But I'm uncomfortable with giving priority to families who are able to pay for the first year of the program -- that's not at all in keeping with the spirit of free PK, where it really is a lottery that is fair for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a great opportunity, and I hope other private preschools do the same. But I'm uncomfortable with giving priority to families who are able to pay for the first year of the program -- that's not at all in keeping with the spirit of free PK, where it really is a lottery that is fair for all.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a great opportunity, and I hope other private preschools do the same. But I'm uncomfortable with giving priority to families who are able to pay for the first year of the program -- that's not at all in keeping with the spirit of free PK, where it really is a lottery that is fair for all.

+1

If there are limited funds and hence limited spaces it does make sense to spend those funds on the kids who will most benefit from PK-3 (and 4).

I would love to have back the money we spent on pre-school when my kids were 3 which we could have really used but don't mind if the spot went to someone more needy and do mind if it went to someone with more money.

Either way I find this very strange that OSSE is diverting money to a private school to pay for PK-3, especially a school that is located in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a great opportunity, and I hope other private preschools do the same. But I'm uncomfortable with giving priority to families who are able to pay for the first year of the program -- that's not at all in keeping with the spirit of free PK, where it really is a lottery that is fair for all.

+1

If there are limited funds and hence limited spaces it does make sense to spend those funds on the kids who will most benefit from PK-3 (and 4).

I would love to have back the money we spent on pre-school when my kids were 3 which we could have really used but don't mind if the spot went to someone more needy and do mind if it went to someone with more money.

Either way I find this very strange that OSSE is diverting money to a private school to pay for PK-3, especially a school that is located in Ward 3.

+1 This is exactly what folks have been concerned about for a long time. Public funds to private schools, which then pick and choose their student body, or which make it difficult financially or logistically for non-wealthy families to participate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.

Sending great love, empathy, and a tsunami of tax dollars to the folks who find it "sickening" that Ward 3 families might actually -- gasp! -- have local access to the pk3 we already pay for, which everyone else gets without question. Bless your hearts.

Sure would be nice if we had free public pk3. You know, like you have. At your local school *and* at all of those charters in your ward. But that's just too much to ask for Ward 3.