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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I love about the preschool frenzy is that the entire reason DCPS has the program is to help low income families. But it's the high SES folks who get hot and bothered about their access to it. Turns out- us poor folk have done a thing or two for ya'll! [/quote]

That is absolutely not the reason that DCPS has the program. If it were, it would means-test the program. It specifically has a program for all because it wants people to invest in their neighborhood schools, especially underperforming ones. For people who are IB for an underperforming school (or, like mine is, failing) to scam the system--not reside IB for a better school but claim to do so--means that the new school has to take a family that isn't IB and that the neighborhood school by where the family actually lives loses a family that could be investing time and energy to improve the school.

Hey, as someone who is sending her kid to HD Cooke, one of the worst schools in the city, I would love to send my kid WOTP to a school. But I'm not going to do it by lying. I will either get in OOB or I won't--and for now, we're investing a LOT of time and energy into Cooke, which is helping the school get better. [/quote]

PP you seem like your heart is in the right place, but you are very naive &/or you have no idea what you're talking about.

PS3 grew out of Headstart programs for low-income kids. The new boundaries proposal does include a suggestion that all "at-risk" kids should be guaranteed a PS3 lottery spot at their IB school.

IME, DCPS at the macro level (above the level of an individual school/principal) does not care one lick whether high-SES in-boundary families join the school or not. Failing, underenrolled school? Close it. You would think that DCPS would be worried about losing "market share" to charters, but that has not been the case. *Maybe* that tide may be turning a tiny bit, but if it is that is a very recent development.

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It grew out of Head Start and could have stayed as Head start - but DC decided to combine means-tested head start money with general education money to offer PK3 and PK4 to all (not means tested). That was an explicit decision in order to get families to try out their neighborhood schools, and for those of us who love EOTP in struggling schools, it works well. And he new proposal does not guarantee at risk families the right to go to PK3--it grants the rights of anyone who is in boundary for a title 1 school that right. Again, not means tested--as a non-FARM family in boundary for such a school, I would get that right.

DC could have kept preschool and pre-K for just low-income families but explicitly decided not to do that.[/quote]

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