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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But PK-3 and PK-4 are not universal.

And if you live in Ward 3 that is a good thing - at Janney at least they would need 2 additional classrooms just to accommodate all of the in-boundary PK-4 demand and I assume a similar number of classrooms for PK-3 which would swell the school to 825+ kids.

So if it is not universal and is in essence a scare resource who should get the seats?  Even though we completely missed out on PK-3 and only got our youngest into PK-4 because of sibling preference and that probably cost us $40-$50,000 in extra day care costs I still think the seats should go to the kids for whom early intervention is of the most benefit and that is most certainly not my upper middle class kids.

I still think it is problematic that public money is going to a private pre-school especially in Ward 3 and I'm writing as someone who might have benefited from this arrangement.[/quote]

It is "universal," but to DC that means there are seats, they just might be far away from where you live.  http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/portrait-universal-pre-kindergarten-dc[/quote]

Well that is not universal then - [b]universal to me means you have a right to a slot at your designated school[/b] and that is definitely not the case.  From the article:

[i]The city guarantees access to pre-K for four-year-olds, but not necessarily in the child’s neighborhood, meaning that slots aren’t always available nearby. [/i]

Also the piece you cite, for whatever it is worth, does not reference PK-3 as being "universal."
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If you actually want a right to a PK slot at your IB school, then you have to be ok with major changes to the boundaries. For example, sending a lot of kids from Lafayette to Brightwood/Macfarland/Roosevelt. [/quote]

I'm not inbound for Lafayette and not opposed to boundary changes in principle, but they need to make geographic sense. Forcing kids to commute across the park to a school in a completely different neighborhood is unreasonable and defies the concept of a neighborhood school system, on which DCPS is still based.[/quote]

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