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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't it the case that most school systems don't have PK3 or PK4?   Seems you have to think of it as a luxury or should only be for at risk kids.  Tax dollars could be used to fund other parts of education process and those that can make other arrangements. [/quote]

DC has almost-universal PK3 and PK4 because the DCPS programs (except for in Ward 3) are funded by Head Start dollars. We wouldn't have it if we didn't have so many low-income families.[/quote]

Sometimes I think they should make pre-K income-based... I probably wouldn't qualify but that just seems more fair.[/quote]

If they did that the schools
Would turn to shit, again. Free preschool is the gateway that gets high SES families into them at all and every ear more and more stay which eventually turns the school around in 10 years or so.
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The only school I know where this is actually true is Brent.  All the JKLM schools were already good years ago.  In all other cases, high SES families stay for free preK and then move to the burbs, or to NW.[/quote]

Add to Brent  - Ross, Stoddert, Eaton, Hearst, Shepherd as schools that have come along in the last 10 years with greater IB participation.  Possibly Marie Reed, Bancroft, SWWFS heading that direction...at least that's my view of NW.[/quote]

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