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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS should add an early learning center in Ward 3 to offer more preK 3 seats. [/quote]

100% THIS. 
You know how to preserve economic segregation in this city? Make sure the working poor and public service workers without access to inherited wealth (which makes them the least likely to own their own vehicles) can't access necessary child care and education services - like PK3 slots that don't require a hefty commute, or any schoolbus service at all - unless they move to the part of town TPTB have decided it's ok for The Poors to live.

There are plenty of older apartment buildings in Upper NW - on Connecticut, near Wisconsin, and elsewhere. And there are plenty of DC families who lack cars or hefty bank accounts who would like to live in those buildings...but can't, if it means potentially shelling out an extra $30K (or $60K, if your kid was born Oct 1 instead of Sept 30) in child care costs per kid, or personally handling daily school transportation.

If you only offer services to those who need them in specific areas of the city... then the only place people who need those services will be able to live is those areas. And if you don't offer those services in other areas of the city, people for whom those services are necessary will be functionally unable to live in those areas - it makes the difference to everyone from the working poor to people with "good" jobs who lack family wealth. Maybe everyone is fine with that setup, and it's a feature, not a bug. But don't put a bow on it and pretend these decisions aren't just reflecting economic segregation - they're PERPETUATING and CEMENTING it.[/quote]

Hi. Most of those apartments are filled with voucher recipients who do not have access to pre-K3 because there isn’t any in ward 3. [/quote]

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