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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's sad is that what's best for our kids takes a back seat to not being shut out by waiting. Your DC may not be ready right now, but if you don't apply and take a spot now you may be SOL later. We all lose in this game![/quote]

I disagree with using the term "sad".  The option for free PK3 and PK4 is very rare in DC.  You don't have to participate in the madness if you do not want.  K is a good year to enter charters so if you opt to keep your child at home you have that right, but don't call it sad because its a daunting process if you wish to participate.  All I see about preschool craziness in lotteries etc baffles me, it's more of an entitlement feeling from other parents rather than looking at it as a great benefit to utilize to offset expensive daycare and prepare our youngsters for Kinder (even of you're destined to a tier 2 option).[/quote]

A troll has come a'lurkin'! So tired of these pretenders. Everyone knows that if you wait till K, you're likely screwed. Yes, a lot of people are taking advantage of free Pre-K and move on to other options at the K level. More DO NOT. The number of people on waitlists has reached into the hundreds. The economy is down. Translation- people aren't messing around and are sticking with their school from Prek going forward, so long as its not a total mess. Parents wanting an option are not ENTITLED. People trying to push that message are DEMONS FROM TROLL LAND, however![/quote]

OMG, thank you virtual stranger. PP from above and I swallowed the nasty troll bait hook, line, and sinker. The fact that I'm sick and nearly in tears about the school situation is bad enough, and then to have someone call me entitled because I want a choice? I'd be glad to just have a few spots at the schools set aside for students whose families did not use the preschool to allow competitive K entry. I think this change will happen gradually, but it seems unlikely before it's too late for my kids.

Thank you for talking me down from the ledge here. I allowed that poster to make me really angry and you are right - she's just baiting me. [/quote]

I really don't think PP is a troll. Do you know what a troll is? Do you really think that someone could have a different opinion than you?

I would bet that if you took a poll of all parents in DC (not just DCUMland), you would find that the VAST majority are in favor of full day PS & PK.

It sounds like your real problem is that you are not happy with your local DCPS. If you lived virtually anywhere else in the country, you wouldn't have the myriad  options available to you to get out of sending your kid to your local school. That's the positive in the DC school choice craziness. The drawback, maybe you might have to send your kid to school a little bit before you would like. It's a tradeoff.

Up until a few years ago, PS wasn't even available here. Can you imagine the outcry if they tried to get rid of it or scale it back?[/quote]

PP and you aren't trolls. There's other names for you both much more fitting. To keep this somewhat cerebral though I'm sure your more accostomed to the gutter- I'll half step with a phrase I've seen in other threads- "rat troll". Do YOU know what THAT is? Since the high road doesn't work with you gutter lurkers and you're hell bent scurrying around on DCUM- let's get to it. This is more for the benefit of other readers since the intelligence you're working with is either nil, you're that insensitive or something else is array. Whatever! Parents in the District are entitled to a high quality education where we will in the city. Also entitled to choose exactly where we want to live. The city's mismanagement doesn't preclude these rights. We pay taxes and there's something called the Bill of Rights. Read it. Never mind- you wouldn't understand it! The city chose to make a system that has resulted in families having to choose between the welfare of their kids and EVER getting into a decent school. This is wrong. You DCPS and WTU cronies should be ashamed of yourselves for pressing the agenda like it's legit. How about you try to fix the system. Not grind your axes with innocent parents who simply want choice. [/quote]

Actually, the Bill of Rights (and the rest of the Constitution) doesn't say anything about the right to a public education, much less a free, quality education at the school of your choosing at an age that you deem appropriate. Here's a link so you can read up: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

Given your apparent ignorance, I think your kid could probably benefit from all the extra schooling s/he can get.

Also, what is a rat troll? And what do you mean by "something else is array"? That doesn't make any sense.

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