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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the hard pill to swallow is that the residents who pay the most in city taxes are, by and large, the only ones who get shut out of their neighborhood schools for pk3 and pk4. Most everyone else has access to ECE within a mile or so.[/quote]

The residents who pay the most in city taxes are by and large shut out of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Medicaid and SNAP and TANF and Interim Disability Assistance and Section 8 vouchers and Burial Assistance and adult literacy classes and matched savings accounts and homeless shelters too. And that's ok. Because they are targeted at low income people, and more necessary for them--if you're rich, you can pay your taxes and buy your own food too and SNAP is less necessary. Having excess capacity for PK within walking distance is also something more common in low-income areas; it doesn't bother me because I have flexibility with my job and my spouse's job, and the ability to pay for child care and transportation options that allow me to get a kid across town faster and easier than taking 3 buses each way.

A big reason why the schools WoTP don't have room for all the PK kids is because people in high-income areas are incredibly resistant to redistricting. If folks in Ward 3 who got shut out are willing to band together and say "we don't care about a Deal or Wilson feed; tighten up the boundaries because we want PK" then maybe it would happen.  But that seems unlikely.

Nothing is stopping a rich family from moving to Deanwood or Kenilworth or Anacostia in order to have proximity to PK, if that's their top priority. Different neighborhoods have different tradeoffs. If you're rich, you have more ability to choose.

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