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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people commute 20 minutes or more for the entirety of their children’s public school education in DC. Ward 3 parents need to get a grip.[/quote]

The commute isn't even the issue for them, not really. It's that they moved to Ward 3 in part to ensure their kids could go to schools where the vast majority of students were from high SES families, and they resent the idea that they would travel outside of Ward 3 for their kid to attend a more economically (and racially) diverse preschool. Like even the "HRCS" schools are more diverse than they would prefer, because anyone who does the lottery can get into them!

They want to send their kids to better schools (where better is defined as having wealthy families) than other people, and that includes for PK. Which is fine with me, knock yourselves out. But that's not the purpose of the universal PK program in the city and there are plenty of private PKs in Ward 3 to meet their needs.

If someone in Ward 3 can't afford private PK, you can bet they find a way to send their kid to one of the free programs. It's just that this is not usually the complaint of Ward 3 parents when it comes to availability of free PK in their Ward.[/quote]

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