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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you aren’t willing to send your child to your inbounds public  school, you will need a lot of luck not to strike out.

Where is your child in care now? Can you keep him or her there next year? If not, get on waitlists now. You may be too late for official “preschools” that have you formally apply a year ahead, so consider daycares in your area.[/quote]

We have listed 2 schools that went through about 95% of their WLs last year, so I don't think we will need a lot of luck to merely not strike out. But we recognize it's entirely possible that we could be extraordinarily unlucky and get a terrible number and/or the safeties we listed aren't as safe this year. I should note that we got on the WL a few months ago for three nonprofit PKs that are part of the DC PK expansion program as well. But I do want to make sure that we have our options covered. Our son is in a nanny share now and we really want him to go to school next year for socialization reasons, so staying put isn't an option.

Do private preKs really fill up a year in advance, even though so many leave for DCPS/charters for PK3? Money isn't an object here, just commute (needs to be somewhere roughly between Petworth and Farragut, with a little bit of wiggle room to go outside of that direct commute).[/quote]

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