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[quote=Anonymous]I am confused by OP. You have daycare where you are now and you're happy with it? Why would you change?

Arlington is getting slightly better, as some new facilities have opened up, but Arlington is notorious for long wait lists at its daycare centers. When I was pregnant and began phoning places, the Bright Horizons' places all said that unless I was a Federal employee, it might be 3-5 years to get in and the other facilities were similarly long waits. We ended up driving my DS to Fairfax County as that was the only place with open enrollments!!

I also enrolled my son in APS PreK and when he was 4-1/2 he was offered a spot at Hoffman-Boston, but by then we were in our third year at a private daycare facility and it seemed suicidal to move him for 6 months and then start K at a different school. So I don't think getting into the APS PreK is particularly easy, although I'm sure some lucky people don't take 2-1/2 years to get off the waitlist... APS isn't DC where there is guaranteed admission. APS is more like a place that is bulging at the seams and, for all the nannies and au pairs in the county, it still doesn't seem to have enough preK capacity.[/quote]

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