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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am very much not a troll and I agree that there is a lot of entitlement on this thread.  First, this is a poor city that had for many years extremely poor citizens.  The city designed the free PS and PK as an offshoot of Head Start to provide free early education to kids whose parents can't afford it.  It's great that you would prefer to have your child spend time with a nanny or you and only attend preschool part time.  Then do that. [b] But it is entitled to demand that the city offer you the free preschool that you want in addition to the free preschool that the city believes the poor children of this city need.[/b]  Second, the problem that people seem to have really stems from your own decision to live in a neighborhood that does not offer a school that you find acceptable.  Living here requires trade offs.  If you choose to live in the biggest house you can afford in a transitional neighborhood then you have to play the lottery and take the full day PS and PK.  If you want to pick your preschool and still have a guaranteed K then you will have to move to a neighborhood that allows that.[/quote]

That's not the issue at all.  I'd have been more than happy to continue to pay for private preschool.  It's that by making that choice, I dramatically reduce my chances of getting into a good charter school or OOB for kindergarten.  Because entry years are pre-S and pre-K, if you prefer to not use the full-day pre-K, options are significantly limited.  [/quote]

Yes, but since you have the choice to go private, then do what you think is best for your family (keep your kid home for PS and PK) and then if you don't get in, go to private!  The DC public school system was really not set up to serve your income base anyway (since you can afford private daycare), but since all residents of DC have a right to private school, then everyone can apply and go.  But to wish the structure of it would change to serve your middle or upper class family choices is ludicrous and clueless.  And I say that as an upper middle-class parent.

If you win the school lottery in this town (in DCPCS or DCPS), you literally win the lottery and you should be grateful has heck that there is a school system that offers these kinds of great programs, not income-based, and that you have the choice to send your kids at all.  If you have other options, then use them.  So yes, you dramatically reduce your choices, that's how it is.  You're lucky to have choices at all, and even though I know it's hard for middle and upper class people to tolerate "trade offs", it is good for society that once in a blue moon we have to experience them.  Live with it.[/quote]

Please take your head out of your ass. Seriously, just give it a try.

My family makes 60K a year. We are not upper class and I'm not sure we qualify as "middle class" in this city, though there are few cities where that logic would apply. Are you seriously that out of fucking touch with reality that you can't see that a family who might be able to save up and afford 2K per kid for two years for a private / coop preschool might not be able to pay 15K (rock bottom entry point by all accounts) for private for 12 more years? Holy shit. This is why people are accusing you of trolling. You are an upper middle class parent trying to school me on entitlement. LOL, lady! I am not GRATEFUL that these things are not income based, because I think they should be serving poor kids (Poorer than my family, in fact) and NOT providing a wealthy, entitled asswipe with free daycare. Goddamn, you are the dumbest person I've encountered on this site. Maybe you should go to school with your kids and learn to read?

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