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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PK3

Stevens Early Learning Center - #60
Thomson Elementary School - #16

These are near our offices, so that's why we like them. We live in-bounds for Hyde-Addison, majorly annoyed they removed PK3 right when we needed it  :cry:

Matched at Meridian PCS. Still waiting to hear back from Communikids, Rosemount, and Kiddie Academy on their separate lotteries.[/quote]

If you live IB for Hyde-Addison you don't need free PK (you want it), meanwhile you have matched for preK in a neighborhood where more kids actually need it.  :roll: [/quote]

This isn't a thread for being judgey-judys. [/quote]

NP. Perhaps not but this is such a permanent pet peeve of mine in these lottery threads that I personally support the call out. No one feels sorry for people like this and they need to learn to stop trying to seek sympathy on these boards for this situation. It's so tiresome. Universal PK was not adopted in DC in order to make sure families IB for Hyde-Addison would have an easy commute for free PK. This is not a real problem, just an inconvenience for people who can afford to pay to make inconveniences go away.[/quote]

I've paid $120K+ in city taxes over the past 12 years to the District. GTFOOH for trying to shame any of us from using a very valuable service - pre-K - offered by our city government. Should I not use municipal sanitation? Should I not call the police or fire department? What about speech therapy offered by the District to my toddler? Should we be forced to avoid the public parks and programming? Can I not use the public pool if I can afford a private pool club in the suburbs?

Please list out the services and income thresholds for various services offered by the District, to ensure I don't run afoul of your views. Thx![/quote]

This freaking board, I swear.

No one said you aren't entitled to universal PK in DC. But you are not entitled to universal PK [i]at your IB school[/I]. No one is. You don't hear people whining about stuff like this in working class and poor neighborhoods in this city because people recognize that "free" pretty much never means "ideal, convenient, and exactly what you were expecting." Sorry not sorry. If you even knew people who lived in the parts of this city where it is hard to find a functional ES at all, you might realize how entitled you sound.

Oh, and the amount of taxes you pay has ZERO relevance to your entitlement to a public PK, the fact that you think so is indicative of how entitled you are. You could be a lifelong Washingtonian whose family had paid millions in taxes to the city and donated half your estate to DCPS and you would still be no more entitled to a convenient public PK than anyone else. If you want to swing your wallet around and see people jump, you are MORE than welcome go to private school or decamp for Virginia where taxes are lower but there's no universal PK. Best of luck to you.[/quote]

Wow, I’m really enjoying my time living in your head rent-free.  :lol:

I merely said I was disappointed that our local ended PK3 the very year we needed it. I absolutely knew it was a crap shoot in the lottery, as H-A has had a waitlist for inbound kids without siblings for PK3. We are eager to join the H-A community, so it was a big let down to get the email in December that H-A was nixing PK3 for another class at a higher level.

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