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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Giving Lafayette PK3 would be absurd! Families that can afford to pay 1M for a single family home do NOT need Government subsidized childcare. Put that money w here it is needed in other parts of the city. [/quote]

Families that live in $1M houses all over the city have access to free PK3 via the lottery. In fact, I do. You need to be advocating for free, high quality preschool all over the district so that free PK is truly universal. You don’t want universal preschool, you just want to be sure that someone who could afford something doesn’t have equal access to taxpayer funded services. This attitude doesn’t help improve citywide services (e.g., please just raise my taxes to pay for things for other people vs. raise my taxes so that everyone can have access).[/quote]

Nope. Gov Public funded PK should only go to those who can’t afford private. It’s a waste of tax money to be paying for PK 4 for a family making upwards of $350,000! Many families at Janney, Mann, Lafayette etc are pulling in way over that amount. They need to do the right thing and pay childcare. [/quote]

That’s a policy decision and DC has decided not to make it means tested. There are pros and cons of course - pros being that there is more overall support for universal programs than for programs targeted for the poor. See social security, Medicare (basically sacrosanct) vs Medicaid, food stamps, welfare. [/quote]

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