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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you get rid of PK in Ward 3  - and curtail OOB - then I think the rest of the city should reciprocate: No Ward 3 PK3-4 squatting in our schools.[/quote]

If OOB spots are available (and they should only be made available where there is excess capacity), any child in DC is eligible to lottery for it. Just because a child lives in a ward with overcrowded schools with little to no OOB capacity doesn't mean they can't lottery for available OOB spots elsewhere. And your idea is even more delusional if you want to apply it to city-wide charters. Do you consider those "your" schools as well?

It is certainly true that most people in Ward 3 don't *need* free PK, but neither do the middle and upper middle class gentrifiers and long-term residents EOTP. So there is really no economic argument either to support your resentment-driven ideas, unless you want to introduce means-tested access to PK city-wide.[/quote]

+1.  If PP wants to go to 'their' schools IB, they can, with priority in PK3 and PK4 over OOBs from WOTP and anywhere else.  So what's this "squatting" that PP feels harmed by?  Bizarre.[/quote]

Agreed, and the idea that a reduction in PK offerings for IB students at Ward 3 schools (in addition to adjusting OOB seats based on enrollment) should somehow be part of the justification for denying lottery access to WOTP families is so illogical I can't even begin to pick it apart. Because people WOTP get LESS for their tax dollars than a family with the same HHI EOTP means they shouldn't even try their luck in the lottery and take on the burden of a commute if they are so inclined (I imagine relatively few people do anyway)? She must be really angry to offer such foggy reasoning.[/quote]

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