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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, somebody gets in, because there are tons of people with kids in charter schools, including me.  I understand your frustration, and yes, the odds are low but just like the Powerball somebody's number is going to come up.  It just sucks when it isn't yours.  The fact that lots of people don't get in doesn't mean that charters are a waste of time.  We all play the hand we're dealt.  If I hadn't gotten a slot, we simply would have left our child in daycare until K and then enrolled him at a Catholic school.[/quote]

Yeah!  2 extra years of daycare - because you know, everyone can just pay for that.  [/quote]

Universal PS and PK (all day) are fairly new.  You can get into a PS or PK, there were plenty of spots open last year and there will be this year, just not a school you may consider worthy.  Did you plan for your kid?  If so, did you only plan for 3 years of daycare?[/quote]

Thank you.  I am the PP attacked for being "blase" when we were anything but.  We went into parenthood with budget spreadsheets and did a shit ton of research on costs for daycare, maternity leave, and other expenses.  We knew the school situation.  We also knew that when the time came we would face some tough choices, one of which included not having a second child so we could transfer the money we'd already budgeted for daycare to more years of daycare than we'd hoped for or for Catholic school (which is generally "affordable" versus a traditional private) once we hit K.  What I don't get are the parents on here who are shocked - SHOCKED - that getting a PS3 slot at a decent school in DC was so danged hard.  This is not exactly news.  Sadly, we live in a city where most people can't just jump willy-nilly into parenthood without giving some long, hard thought to the financial impact.  I assume that like me, most others here have no family to help them, so everything has to be planned for financially.[/quote]

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