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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here -- Funny I grew up in Forest Hills too.  Big house, definitely not Head Start eligible and went to Murch prek in 1977. DC was one of the first school district implemented it.  Your parents may have decdied it wasn't for you or perhaps you went to a private preschool which is what two of my older siblings did since it wasn't available to them.

Here you go:  http://fcd-us.org/sites/default/files/Pre-K%20for%20All%20DC%20Case%20Study.pdf[/quote]

I'm the person you are trying to educate.  You have succeeded, somewhat, in that I didn't know that DC's Head Stsrt preschool program was not means tested and instead was available (at least one classroom in every school building) to any family that was willing to wait in line overnight to secure a spot.

But the point still stands that your family sent you to a Head Start program as envisioned and implemented by DC.  This program, created for disadvantaged children as part of LBJ's Great Society plan, was used by your family living in the big house in Forest Hills.

DC's approach to Head Stsrt eligibility when it rolled out was no doubt due to the realities of the city's demographics in the very late 60s and early 70s.  As you'll recall, there weren't a lot of kids in this city at that time who -weren't- poor, in absolute numbers.   Administratively, I'm sure it made sense to make the seats to kids not-at-risk, too,  since as you'll recall, there just weren't that many of us attending public school in the early 1970s.

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