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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sibling preference is a model designed for charter or magnet schools, where school assignments are not determined by geographic boundaries at all. It would be impossible to retain families without that benefit.
 When applied to public schools that serve, whether officially or practically, exclusively in boundary students that all have a right to attend at K, they don't make sense. Instead, they serve as a means to deciding who gets free, formal preK and who does not. 
It's not about "keeping families together" at that point since the school is presumably in your neighborhood to begin with and your younger child will have a spot there within a couple years. Maybe it makes sense for twins, but not for younger siblings.[/quote]

Agree with this 100%.  Sibling preference does not make sense for public schools with geographic boundaries (not citywide). [/quote]

Free preschool doesn't make sense for schools with wealthy students either. [/quote]

I dunno. The State is required to provide free public education to everyone  and deciding to start that at age 5 is kind of arbitrary. If a state or municipality and its voters decide they want to start offering public education earlier, I think that is a worthwhile goal. The question is how do you distribute this limited resource before it can be fully implemented. And at what expense is the free preschool- larger classrooms? Fewer arts/music/specials? What has the greater educational impact?
And there are certainly other ways in which semi-universal preK have benefited all D.C. Residents. Property values in, say, Brookland, for one.[/quote]

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