Pre-K 3: Free in DC, but seems like a real lack of schools, especially in NW!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are willing to travel, there are more spots than applicants for PK3. But that may mean traveling tonwards 7 and 8. Otherwise, you do what everyone else does - pay for a spot in a private program.

Of course, applicants are lower than demand because not a lot of people can manage to commute away from home and work with a 3 year old, particularly if they also have other kids in other schools or daycare closer to home.

[Anonymous]

There are pk3 spots at other schools. Many parents at our JKLM send kids there for a year, then to PK4 onward at their IB school.

The school problems WOTP are not about PK3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are pk3 spots at other schools. Many parents at our JKLM send kids there for a year, then to PK4 onward at their IB school.

The school problems WOTP are not about PK3.

Then the EOTP schools get marked down in the star rating system for poor retention. Fun times!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are pk3 spots at other schools. Many parents at our JKLM send kids there for a year, then to PK4 onward at their IB school.

The school problems WOTP are not about PK3.

What do you consider the school problems WOTP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are pk3 spots at other schools. Many parents at our JKLM send kids there for a year, then to PK4 onward at their IB school.

The school problems WOTP are not about PK3.

What do you consider the school problems WOTP?

overcrowding.

EOTP many DCPS have classes that are around 20 students.

in contrast - 1st grade at our school has 27 students.

[Anonymous]

School Without Walls @ Francis Stevens (SWWFS) has Prek3 and is great if you can get in. While it is Ward 2, it was convenient for us a few years ago coming from Ward 3 daily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3, y’all gettin played. No summer school programs, no charters, no PS-3, no outdoor pools, and overcrowded MS/HS schools with kids from all eight wards. Keep sending in those taxes though!

Love,

The Rest of the City

You’d think this would make people move out of Ward 3 and go to the other Wards, but they don’t. I wonder why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.myschooldc.org/find-schools/school-options-outside-my-school-dc

^ there are free options outside the programs at elementary schools. Communikids is one in ward 3

OP, enroll your two year old at Communikids this year so you can get a preference for free PreK 3 next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3, y’all gettin played. No summer school programs, no charters, no PS-3, no outdoor pools, and overcrowded MS/HS schools with kids from all eight wards. Keep sending in those taxes though!

Love,

The Rest of the City

You’d think this would make people move out of Ward 3 and go to the other Wards, but they don’t. I wonder why?

Are you being facetious?

[Anonymous]

And yet everyone else wants to be in W3. I wonder why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3, y’all gettin played. No summer school programs, no charters, no PS-3, no outdoor pools, and overcrowded MS/HS schools with kids from all eight wards. Keep sending in those taxes though!

Love,

The Rest of the City

You’d think this would make people move out of Ward 3 and go to the other Wards, but they don’t. I wonder why?

Ward 3 is adding population at a much slower rate than all of the other Wards except ward 8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3, y’all gettin played. No summer school programs, no charters, no PS-3, no outdoor pools, and overcrowded MS/HS schools with kids from all eight wards. Keep sending in those taxes though!

Love,

The Rest of the City

You’d think this would make people move out of Ward 3 and go to the other Wards, but they don’t. I wonder why?

Are you being facetious?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3, y’all gettin played. No summer school programs, no charters, no PS-3, no outdoor pools, and overcrowded MS/HS schools with kids from all eight wards. Keep sending in those taxes though!

Love,

The Rest of the City

You’d think this would make people move out of Ward 3 and go to the other Wards, but they don’t. I wonder why?

Ward 3 is adding population at a much slower rate than all of the other Wards except ward 8.

Probably bc of the lack of affordable inventory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 3, y’all gettin played. No summer school programs, no charters, no PS-3, no outdoor pools, and overcrowded MS/HS schools with kids from all eight wards. Keep sending in those taxes though!

Love,

The Rest of the City

You’d think this would make people move out of Ward 3 and go to the other Wards, but they don’t. I wonder why?

Are you being facetious?

If Ward 3 lacks so much, why do ppl want to move there?

[Anonymous]

So start telling Mary Cheh and Ruth Wattenburg and David Grosso and Muriel Bowser and the DME and chancellor that you are willing to have the boundaries of WoTP schools shrunk so that the schools can accommodate PK3. The challenge is that most families living WOTP would rather have the right to attend the schools they prefer for K-12 than to have more PK seats.

Anyone living IB for a school that doesn't offer PK could move IB for a school that does (and could even move IB for a school that has guaranteed PK!) but if you don't want to, that's ok--you're lucky to have the choice when lots of folks in Wards 7 and 8 don't have the option of moving to Ward 3.