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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is [b]extremely inconvenient[/b] is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.[/quote]

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, a[b]nd I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.
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Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged. [/quote]

NP here, and this is not true. They stated there would not be a bus (remember, it was for PRE-K).  We are IB for Lafayette and I am a teacher up in Maryland. It would have been extremely inconvenient for me to drive 15 minutes in the opposite direction of my job to drop off. However, we bought IB for Lafayette knowing we could not count on getting in for PK4, so we were completely fine with paying for preschool for another year before K. [/quote]

And no, DCPS does not provide bus service except for kids with SNs and kids in a swing space. [/quote]

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