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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] In reality, many people do not get a spot in a location they are willing to commute to, or at a school they are willing to attend.  So they pay for private preschool or daycare, just like most people in this country.[/quote]

Last year (2019 lottery), myschooldc reported that there were 5,708 PK3 lottery applications. Overall enrollment for PK3, according to the enrollment audit, was 5,800 kids. There are definitely kids who enroll in available PK3 seats who didn't apply through the initial lottery. And there are few PK3 seats WOTP.

But the contention that MANY don't get a spot in a location they are willing to commute to seems quite overstated... unless your bubble is entirely your WOTP neighbors.
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I think probably that "many" was exactly that, re: WOTP....

The rest of us mostly DO get a spot in PK3, somewhere we are happy with for at least the PK years, if not our actual IB school. [/quote]

Personally I was quite happy with our EOTP one-star PK3.  We're still there for first grade now.  But if you add up the number of people who don't even lottery for PK3 because they understand they have no chance anywhere they could drive to, I think "many" is a fair descriptor.  Several hundred people is "many" people to me.  Now, it isn't "most".  Most people do get a spot they are willing to enroll in.  [/quote]

I actually only know about two people who are not sending their child to PK3 in either a charter or DCPS, EOTP, because they didn't like their results. But they were more than happy to go to a local private school anyway. Vast majority do get something, just not in the WOTP community which is overly represented on this board.[/quote]

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