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You're absolutely incorrect, however, about what the expansion accomplished and was designed to do. Head start is / was a program designed to give a leg up (literally: a head start) for disadvantaged kids, to level the playing field. However, middle class families, who were paying for daycare, observed that it was unfair to give a big portion of the city free childcare, and to give this childcare an educational component, thereby disadvantaging THEIR kids. So those families cried foul, and the city listened, and expanded PS and PK as a way to support working, mostly middle-class families. [/quote]

As one of those upper-middle class parents that asked the city to provide universal PreK, may I please explain that it really had quite a lot to do with making our DCPS neighborhood school competitive with charter schools that provided PS3 to those lucky enough to get into the school?  Without providing PS3, many DCPS schools were not on a level playing field when competing for students.  I personally also desired a mixed income preschool setting rather than school for a bunch of other upper-middle class if we went with private care?  there are also plenty of studies indicating that mixed income settings is the best way to erase the achievement gap, something I am VERY concerned about for our society.  I personally believe in early childhood education, but I get that I could be wrong and maybe kids would actually do better in the long run if they delayed to K.

So, I hope you ask the charter are want your child to attend K at why they decided to accept students at PS3 or PS4 instead of K.  If you don't find the reason personally satisfactory, please ask them to consider helping you draft a charter with a K start date.  I think it would be fascinating to have a charter school that mirrors another one except for the possibly crucial detail of starting in K.  In time, the records of the students would indicate whether or not the start date makes a difference.  IF the kids do better starting in K, that could cause reconsideration of the universal preschool movement.  I doubt that would happen, but I would really love to see this play out.

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