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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's just eliminate free PK for any school that isn't Title 1. [/quote]

+1.  Since they are always complaining about being overcrowded.

Even better idea: these schools can offer PK but ONLY for at-risk kids.[/quote]

good way to solve overcrowding - make the school less attractive to young families and provide more incentives to exit or never enter the system. Easy to solve overcrowding by killing demand.

Some posters take quality for granted.  Only a few years ago many parents wouldn't touch some now in demand schools with a ten foot pole.[/quote]

[b]If a few dozen low-income kids will kill demand for the entire school, you really have bigger problems[/b].[/quote]

That has nothing to do with it.  If there are no PS/PK prospects in DC plenty of families will look elsewhere and never enter the system. When you look at private PS options in DC it's limited to fed/corporate/parochial options and there are far fewer spaces in DC than in suburbs.

Or it would exacerbate the classism between Wilson feeders and everyone else (notice that none offer PK3 and many families can easily afford to deal with shut getting shut out of PK4).   It would cost the system any kind of reasonable balance or middle class base.  It would only extend the currently flawed and highly segregated approach to a systemic one.  Set asides are one thing (all talk but good in principal) but reserving PS/PK for income based qualification makes no sense.  A 'few dozen' low-income student set-aside at any one school is basically the bulk of PS/PK[/quote]

Huh?  In most of this country, elementary schools have no preschool whatsoever, and people still enter the school system.  Paying for 12 years of private school because of no free preschool is insane.[/quote]

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