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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many people on this board assume that just because someone lives WOTP, they are wealthy and own some SFH zoned for Janney.  I just want to remind you that that is not always the case.  My small family of three rents an apartment zoned for Murch.  Even though we are years away from school aged for our kid, we live where we live because it's much less expansive than where we used to live EOTP.  We're saving as much as we can to be able to buy a place, but that likely won't be in our current neighborhood.  So for us, free pre-k 3 would be a huge bonus (which is why we will apply to many of the wonderful programs EOTP and just make it work with our commutes).  Point being, please don't assume that everyone WOTP can afford private, and can afford to stay there as homeowners long term. [/quote]

+1. And even among the homeowners, there are people who bought small fixer uppers WOTP, maybe before prices of those climbed close to a million. That's the case for us, and with the budget we had back then, we'd today be looking IB for the Title 1 school where we attended PK. I'm not clamoring for PK3 to be made available WOTP, but please don't assume everyone in Ward 3 is rich, dropped a million on a house, and can easily afford private preschool for multiple kids.[/quote]

That's not it.  The it is that you have decent schools k-12. I would happily give up two years of pk for that. I don't have that choice because of house prices.  If I did (if I say got lucky and bought before prices skyrocketed) I would be happy to pay for prek to have great/good k-12 path.[/quote]

Well, good for you that you would be happy to pay for private, I wasn't because our disposable income was already tight (and I wasn't going to use our limited savings for it, and did I mention that I bought a fixer upper?). The beauty is that I didn't have to, but was able to lottery into a school for which I could make the commute work, even though I now have good schools K-12. Just because you resent that doesn't mean that it's wrong for me to have participated in the lottery, as your post seems to suggest. I'm not any richer than many EOTP DCUMers.

Again, I'm not asking for PK3 WOTP. I'm just arguing against the notion that preschool isn't a financial burden for anyone on this side of town, and that just because you have good schools starting in K you shouldn't lottery for public preschool. Between apartment renters, condo owners, and people in very small houses, there is a bigger diversity of incomes over here than you might imagine.[/quote]

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