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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is fantastic. I hope all non-Title one schools follow suit. We should not be subsidizing a windfall for UMC parents. As a taxpayer, it is a much better investment to invest in wrap around services for children in poorer neighborhoods and circumstances. [/quote]
FWIW there are f[b]amilies probably living near the poverty level [/b]at the school. But in general, I agree. [/quote]

Agreed, but not that many and they can apply OOB, or soon will get a high subsidy from city for daycare. I say this as an UMC parent who pays a huge chunk for daycare every month - but I can afford to. I would rather the city take of poorer children -especially when there is so munch wingeing re: overcrowding. [/quote]

+1. The kids in Ross PK3 in my experience were medium well off to very well off.  Y[b]ou have to be to live in the catchement zone.[/b]  [/quote]

Exactly.  [b]I hope PP will come back and explain how multiple entires families live near the poverty level and rent or own in the handful of blocks between Dupont Circle and Logan Circle.   [/b]

Unless they are Central Office OOB placements into Ross.  But if they are, and PK3 is now gone, they'll just get placed elsewhere.

Which, I also agree, should be a priority.  The UMC windfall of free daycare has always struck me as an odd conceit, as a long-time District resident who lived here before free daycare/preschool[/quote]

There are a ton of apartments in the zone, PP. And there are many buildings that aren't luxury apartments. I can think of at least 3 right on 17th street and 1 on 16th street alone that have reasonable rent. Regular people in Dupont don't buy huge houses as soon as they have kids — they stay in those apartments and raise their kids. I'm not saying it's enough to warrant keeping PK3 (or even PK4), but don't act like every single kid has millionaire parents at Ross. [/quote]

The federal poverty level for a family of three is $20,000.  (For 4, $25k).

You’re not renting  on 16th or 17th in 2018 with a HHI of $20,000, sorry.  PP asserted that there are Ross a bunch of families “near the poverty line.”  Quite a different claim than “some Ross families aren’t wealthy/affluent.”    [/quote]

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