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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our family attends a desirable ES with PK3 + PK4. The school has a sizable OOB contingent starting in K.

What I've noticed:
A handful of white families doing boundary cheating in PK years. They will have an in-bounds rental for the PK3 or PK4 lottery for the oldest kid and then be in a nice big house in Upper NW or EOTP after that.

The school is about 40%-50% OOB so living outside the boundary is pretty normalized, especially after K. It's a good community and people willing to drive across the city are obviously committed to their kids' education. But there is definitely shady stuff happening in the PreK years.

Also, I don't think folks here in the US on diplomatic visas should qualify for Pre-K, even if they live in bounds. It's a ridiculous giveaway to well-off foreigners. [/quote]

Are you proposing to start discriminating according to people’s employment? As long as they are legally residing in DC, [b]whether they are diplomats [/b]or PhD students or in any legal capacity and visa, they deserve and qualify for public schooling opportunities.[/quote]

Are they paying income taxes to the District or the federal government? If not, they shouldn't be getting free PreK3 or PreK4 given that its not guaranteed even for taxpaying US citizens of the District.

It's absurd to give people on diplomatic visas free PreK. It's super entitled given that vast majority of US citizens don't get the benefit.[/quote]

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