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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving for 2 years of "free" daycare doesn't make much sense at all - what happens when the kids are in Kindergarten and above?  What happens if the only school you can get into is 50% homeless kids?  (Not that that can't be a good setting - just that it's not the same as daycare.)  What if your kid doesn't do well in the much more structured DCPS setting?  What if aftercare just sticks your kid in front of the TV for hours? What if the only decent school you lottery into adds 2 hrs to your day in commute time?

And more importantly, what if you get into NO decent school at all?  There are many parents who don't get into any PK3 program at all.  I seriously, seriously doubt you're going to be willing to move your family to say Petworth and then drive your kid to Anacostia where there is room for your preschooler.

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This response is a bit ridiculous![/quote]

Do you even understand the DC schools and lottery?[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I understand the lottery just fine. Did the "many" parents who didn't get into any PK3 program list their in-bounds Petworth school? Powell and Barnard might be tricky, but Raymond traditionally accepts everyone. I actually don't know anyone who got shut out last year, because everyone put their in-bounds school on the list somewhere, in addition to every popular charter and dream DCPS. [/quote]

That might be true for Raymond this year but what about for the (nonexistant) second kid? What if in the end Raymond is a bad fit? What if you don't want to send your kid to Raymond past K? What if you can't find an apartment zoned for Raymond? and etc.

At the end of the day, moving to DC with a small child puts you basically in the same position of the rest of us in trying to deal with the pk lottery - that is, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst with a backup plan of paying for daycare another year. So the concept of "moving to DC for free daycare" is basically laughable unless you have additional reasons to move. [/quote]

This is ridiculous.  First, OP is renting, not buying, so its easier to pick up and move districts if necessary.  Second, there are still plenty of schools where you can get in IB and stay past K if you aren't narrow minded the way DCUM is.  If you listen to this board, it's like Brent and Maury are the only DCPS schools outside of WTOP that are acceptable past K, which is completely untrue and laughable.[/quote]

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