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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait. Hold up. Do you not know that there are sufficient spots for all children to go to preschool and prekindergarten in DC?  There are always available spots.  They are in the poorest areas of the city though, so most of the wealthier parents wouldn't consider them.  But they are there.  Nobody is actually getting shut out.[/quote]

PP is basing her whole premise on how extending these programs to middle and wealthy class family helps kids in the lower SES. So while there may be a handful of spots at the city's scariest and lowest performing schools, do you really want to put that out there as a MEANINGFUL choice?

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Also, none of this is about whether there are enough quality PS/PK slots (we know there are not enough quality ones), it's about whether, once people play the lottery and end up in the good slots (which for the most part are majority low income families, even at the popular charters), whether it is then fair to accomodate the parents who choose to keep their kids home or in private daycare prior to K by holding slots in K or forcing the entire system to start all over again at K.  This would be just so those parents have a better shot at getting into the popular schools and don't get shut out for being able/choosing to keep their kids home up until K.  This would benefit a very small portion of DC's population, but be more than 50% likely to disavantage low income families.

Yes, I'm not kidding, and this proposal was set forth by PPs as somehow being even more fair for low income families, and those of us pointing out the absurdity of that (while freely acknowledging that many of us are also advantaged parents with choices) are called selfish and only protecting ourselves.  The point about it disproportionately hurting low income families is obviously irrelevant to the PPs proposing this idea.[/quote]

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