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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you get rid of PK in Ward 3  - and curtail OOB - then I think the rest of the city should reciprocate: No Ward 3 PK3-4 squatting in our schools.[/quote]

If OOB spots are available (and they should only be made available where there is excess capacity), any child in DC is eligible to lottery for it. Just because a child lives in a ward with overcrowded schools with little to no OOB capacity doesn't mean they can't lottery for available OOB spots elsewhere. And your idea is even more delusional if you want to apply it to city-wide charters. Do you consider those "your" schools as well?

It is certainly true that most people in Ward 3 don't *need* free PK, but neither do the middle and upper middle class gentrifiers and long-term residents EOTP. So there is really no economic argument either to support your resentment-driven ideas, unless you want to introduce means-tested access to PK city-wide.[/quote]

+1.  If PP wants to go to 'their' schools IB, they can, with priority in PK3 and PK4 over OOBs from WOTP and anywhere else.  So what's this "squatting" that PP feels harmed by?  Bizarre.[/quote]

(Oops, quoted wrong post. Meant to respond to this.)

There is one person on this board who is obsessed with this 'issue' and keeps calling children from WOTP who attend PK EOTP "squatters". [/quote]

I've seen it destabilize early ES when the PKers return to their neighborhood school for K. The kids who take their places did not go through PK, are nowhere near as ready to learn as the kids who  attended PK3 & 4.[/quote]

And it's the fault of kids that went to PK that others didn't?  Still not following the logic.[/quote]

Agree. If the OOB kids got a spot to begin with, it is because no on IB wanted it. Would an empty seat (no $$) be more stable? [/quote]

PP is hoping that an OOB student who does not have a better neighborhood option starting in K would get the spot instead, and wants Ward 3 kids to be banned from the lottery because they are certain to return to their neighborhood schools come K. Given the fact that the vast majority of higher SES EOTP families are also certain not to stay at an underperforming school beyond PK or maybe K, however, this is a very weak argument. They higher performing DCPS EOTP are as impossible to lottery into OOB as are Ward 3 schools, and city-wide charters are city-wide (plus they offer alternative pedagogical concepts), so there really is no legal or moral argument to be made for excluding kids from WOTP from the lottery. This whole discussion is a non starter, but there are a few people here who love to bring it up from time to time.[/quote]

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