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Now I get it, because you have some personal view of parenting where you don't apreciate early education for your child, you want DC to eliminate universal preschool/pre-k completely.  You are a myopic and extraordinarily selfish, and very short-sighted.[/quote]

Ha, I am not the poster you are responding to, but only on DCUM does someone who suggests turning the program over to the neediest and letting the wealthier folks, INCLUDING HERSELF, compete for fewer slots, get called "extraordinarily selfish." You people amaze me.[/quote]

Yes, this is the thing that has amazed me all along. We have posters who are not only defending the fact that the program has been expanded to wealthy families trying to protect it, which is understandable, but actually trying to make the claim that the reason they want to protect it is not their own narrow self interest but rather, the poor at-risk families. When you point out that if you really want to protect the at-risk / poor kids, you turn the program back over to them primarily and make everyone else enter at K, they make the absurd claim that YOU are the selfish one.

So what is it, lady, you either DO or DO NOT care about the at-risk kids? Because let me spell it out for you again. If you take a program that was originally designed to level the playing field for poor children, and extend the free benefits to wealthier kids, and in the process, you don't expand the program to serve ALL children, but only expand it in a way that means there are far more children competing for a very limited amount of spots (there are not enough PS / PK slots to serve every child in DC) you are draining resources away from what they should be doing.

You're lucky that your city will give you access to services intended for the poor. Don't call other people "selfish" for pointing that out. [/quote]

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