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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She should find someone to ask the MOTH ("Moms On The Hill") list.  Half the children at Brent can't get into their own school, apparently.  Bitterness is at peak on the Hill.[/quote]

Some Hill parents of toddlers are bitter than MD address cheaters abound at a number of Title 1 neighborhood schools, e.g. Ludlow-Taylor, Payne, JO Wilson, Miner etc. Brent has been Title 1 for years. Their early childhood program can't accommodate all IB families for lack of classroom space (small building and grounds), different issue.

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Maybe, but this is just an absurd degree of lack of perspective and a huge dose of entitlement!  It's *free preschool.*  Practically everywhere else in the country parents have to pay for school until K.  Plus, those families supposedly clamoring to get into Payne or Miner for PK3 are 100% looking for other options and will bail after K.  They just want to use the free preschool and take off for something more acceptable for their snowflake.  Hard to feel that sympathetic.  [/quote]

So you really think that people are not entitled to preschool that is paid for by their tax dollars?  [/quote]

I think they should be much more concerned about things like DC statehood and funding for metro than supposed MD parents stealing "their" slot at Miner.  [/quote]

+1. I could care less if MD families "steal" preschool spots from DC gentrifiers (my own small children attend a charter, my 10th choice of 12).  Maybe these kids won't end up in breaking into my house ten years from now.

But I care that I lack a voting rep in Congress, and that half the Metro elevators don't seem to be working on any given day, leaving me dependent on good Samaritans to carry my double stroller up and down Metro stairs.  With the federal government lavishing resources on DC schools on a per capita basis to a far greater extent than in states, we're spoiled by support and let down by leadership.  If we had a strong mayor serving two terms and DCPS leadership with a vision (keep most gentrifiers in city schools through high school and everybody wins) and matters will improve.  Kicking MD kids out of DC early childhood programs, and frightening them from signing up, won't make a damn bit of difference.

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ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa...

As a DC resident, I can't at all support the idea of DC statehood.  We're incapable of good government.  I'd no more like DC to be a state than I'd like HAITI to be a state.

Here's a thought: eliminate the federal tax burden so that no-one can complain about "taxation without representation."  Boom - that complaint is now gone.  Then, more wonky people who care about their money will move here, and maybe if enough of them move here we can start electing representatives that aren't a joke and embarrassment to the country.  Let's be more like Monaco and less like Baltimore.[/quote]

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