Pre-K3 WOTP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in upper NW DC. We got a spot we were willing to drive to.

I think the issue is that the city tours universal, free preschool! And that makes it seem like it’s available to everyone at every school.

They just say free PK for select neighborhoods and select students! Everyone gets what is and isn’t a budget priority. But no one will feel misled when the discover it’s not really universal.

It's universal for PreK4. Which hasn't always been the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in upper NW DC. We got a spot we were willing to drive to.

I think the issue is that the city tours universal, free preschool! And that makes it seem like it’s available to everyone at every school.

They just say free PK for select neighborhoods and select students! Everyone gets what is and isn’t a budget priority. But no one will feel misled when the discover it’s not really universal.

Who is saying that and who is misled? If you listened to your real estate agent on that, the joke is on you.

Ten seconds of research tells anyone what they need to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because just like everything in life you get what you pay for. All my friends who brag about how much they save and then spend every min of the party/BBQ/brunch complaining about the location/commute or the unwashed masses.

It is sort of like all of the people who brag about their home’s appreciation out of one side of their mouth while bitching about the perils of homesteading before the neighborhood is ready. I rather just pay a premium and get premium situations. 200% when it comes to the kids, good enough isn’t really that good. Maybe if we had less money but then we would move.

Wow, no one I know does that! Probably that’s because your friends are snobs like you. Sorry, “premium” and washed people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because just like everything in life you get what you pay for. All my friends who brag about how much they save and then spend every min of the party/BBQ/brunch complaining about the location/commute or the unwashed masses.

It is sort of like all of the people who brag about their home’s appreciation out of one side of their mouth while bitching about the perils of homesteading before the neighborhood is ready. I rather just pay a premium and get premium situations. 200% when it comes to the kids, good enough isn’t really that good. Maybe if we had less money but then we would move.

Wow, no one I know does that! Probably that’s because your friends are snobs like you. Sorry, “premium” and washed people.

Ps: let this be a lesson for those who are considering WOTP living: this is the kind of person you will be around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because just like everything in life you get what you pay for. All my friends who brag about how much they save and then spend every min of the party/BBQ/brunch complaining about the location/commute or the unwashed masses.

It is sort of like all of the people who brag about their home’s appreciation out of one side of their mouth while bitching about the perils of homesteading before the neighborhood is ready. I rather just pay a premium and get premium situations. 200% when it comes to the kids, good enough isn’t really that good. Maybe if we had less money but then we would move.

Wow, no one I know does that! Probably that’s because your friends are snobs like you. Sorry, “premium” and washed people.

Ps: let this be a lesson for those who are considering WOTP living: this is the kind of person you will be around.

You're stating this as fact based on one random, anonymous DCUM commenter, who very well could be some rando living in Ashburn?

Congratulutions, you're an awful person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because just like everything in life you get what you pay for. All my friends who brag about how much they save and then spend every min of the party/BBQ/brunch complaining about the location/commute or the unwashed masses.

It is sort of like all of the people who brag about their home’s appreciation out of one side of their mouth while bitching about the perils of homesteading before the neighborhood is ready. I rather just pay a premium and get premium situations. 200% when it comes to the kids, good enough isn’t really that good. Maybe if we had less money but then we would move.

Actually, the PK experience you get at DCPS is really good. And "premium" isn't always the same as data-driven and effective. Read up on ECE. Also, I don't know anyone who attends our Title 1 school who complains about the "unwashed masses," or refers to living in any part of DC as "homesteading." Who are you????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because just like everything in life you get what you pay for. All my friends who brag about how much they save and then spend every min of the party/BBQ/brunch complaining about the location/commute or the unwashed masses.

It is sort of like all of the people who brag about their home’s appreciation out of one side of their mouth while bitching about the perils of homesteading before the neighborhood is ready. I rather just pay a premium and get premium situations. 200% when it comes to the kids, good enough isn’t really that good. Maybe if we had less money but then we would move.

Actually, the PK experience you get at DCPS is really good. And "premium" isn't always the same as data-driven and effective. Read up on ECE. Also, I don't know anyone who attends our Title 1 school who complains about the "unwashed masses," or refers to living in any part of DC as "homesteading." Who are you????

I heard homesteading a bit in the early days of DC turning around in the late 90s early 2000s. It was a common and condescending term for the appreciation focused gentrification crowd. I suspect it dates the OP

[Anonymous]

Have lived in DC for 22 years and have never heard the term homesteading. This isn't Little House on the Prairie.

[Anonymous]

I think of myself as reasonably intelligent, but before having kids, I also didn't realize that it would be practically impossible to enroll in DCPS PK3 in Ward 3 (or to get into PK4 without an older sibling). I hadn't heard of DCUM pre-kids, and WaPo articles constantly referred to universal preschool in DC. OP, check out some of the CBOs that offer free PK3 outside of the lottery (assuming they will continue to be funded in the post-COVID era).

[Anonymous]

Universal PK is not just a way to provide assistance to kids who have little.

Universal PK is also a way for DC to pull its communities together. It’s a way to get people who would otherwise send their kids to private school to attend local public schools and joint the local community.

[Anonymous]

t’s a way to get people who would otherwise send their kids to private school to attend local public schools and joint the local community.

It's a way to keep millennials from moving to Md. or Virginia, not keep them from sending their kids to private.

Private schools don't have enough slots to absorb these people's kids — they never have — and the large majority of 31 year olds working at non profits, think tanks, journalism and other DC-ey millennial careers can't afford the $40-$50K a year tuition.