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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is different in DC vs the burbs is that your tax dollars are paying for your neighbor to go to a free pre-k program that you -- based on bad luck -- did not get into. I'd happily pay taxes to support programs for low income kids. But hearing about a wealthy neighbor taking a fancy vacation with the $$$ he saved from free preschool or pre-k when you were shut out is different.

- parent of a kid shut out of 12 schools for pre-k, including four Title 1 schools, one of which was our in-bounds school[/quote]instead of the hate the rich sour grapes why don't you try to be like them? The energy you spend on jealousy and envy towards rich people would be better spent bettering yourself and your own pocketbook.[/quote]

I don't hate rich people - I'm surrounded by them here in Logan Circle and and doing fine financially myself. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to have the $$$ I may have to spend on private preschool because of bad luck in the lottery. Overall, I do tell myself that I'm no worse off than I would be in the suburbs and on one level that is true. But at the same time, it is different because we are all paying taxes for free preschool and yet it is not really available to all and is allocated based on luck and presence of an older sibling - I don't think it's unreasonable to think that could lead to some frustration from those who got bad luck in the lottery. Like I said, I'd happily pay taxes to support free pre-k for all low-income kids. I accept that I am paying taxes to pay for free pre-k for neighbors who are just as comfortable as me but had better luck - but I don't think it makes me crazy or bitter that I'm not thrilled with the way scarce resources are being allocated under the current situation. [/quote]

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