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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what if you're working on saturday and can't get time off from your boss to go stand in line?

no one has even brought that point up, they're just assuming that anyone who doesn't show up sat morning is lazy. but working on a weekend is a reality for lots of folks. I'm not even a "poor single mother" as someone wrote earlier, and i often have to work a saturday shift. nurses? cops? this whole approach is completely selective and only benefits certain kinds of parents. meanwhile, an online lottery LIKE DCPS AND ITS ONLINE OUT OF BOUNDARY PROCESS is the most fair process. DCPS has long since stopped allowing parents to show up at the crack of dawn for a coveted spot. why is DPR taking us back to those days? I can't wait to hear about the fallout at noon today when everyone who wouldn't/couldn't/didn't go on saturday tries to sign up for one of these camps and finds that they're all full. Why didn't DPR only allow people to register for a select number of slots, and then leave some slots open for the online registration? i really can't believe people are defending this method, it is the most stupid thing i've seen the city do in a long, long time.[/quote]

Thank you for raising this point. I'm bristling at the suggestion that the only reasons parents didn't/couldn't go was because they're lazy or don't want it enough. I went, registered my son into a location relatively close to our home. I go with DPR camp because it's pretty much the only option that's affordable, all-day and convenient to home and work. But I don't downplay for a moment the difficulty of finding someone to watch the kids at 6:30am on a Saturday. (And as we've discussed, if they repeat this next year, it'll likely be earlier. Anyone know a good sitter available at 4:30am?)

There are plenty of parents out there who want an affordable camp at least as much as those of us who were able to get there, but because of work, childcare questions, etc., couldn't be there.[/quote]

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