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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Giving Lafayette PK3 would be absurd! Families that can afford to pay 1M for a single family home do NOT need Government subsidized childcare. Put that money w here it is needed in other parts of the city. [/quote]

Families that live in $1M houses all over the city have access to free PK3 via the lottery. In fact, I do. You need to be advocating for free, high quality preschool all over the district so that free PK is truly universal. You don’t want universal preschool, you just want to be sure that someone who could afford something doesn’t have equal access to taxpayer funded services. This attitude doesn’t help improve citywide services (e.g., please just raise my taxes to pay for things for other people vs. raise my taxes so that everyone can have access).[/quote]

Nope. Gov Public funded PK should only go to those who can’t afford private. It’s a waste of tax money to be paying for PK 4 for a family making upwards of $350,000! Many families at Janney, Mann, Lafayette etc are pulling in way over that amount. They need to do the right thing and pay childcare. [/quote]

We've decided in D.C. that public school begins at age 3, period. It doesn't matter how much money you make, you're entitled to a spot in a school for your kid for PK3 and PK4. (There isn't any PK3 in the DCPS schools in the neighborhoods west of the park, but that doesn't mean kids there can't go to PK3 in another school.) By your theory, why not just declare public school is only an option for families that can't afford private tuition, period? [/quote]

Eh? No, DC has decided to gradually expand from Title 1 schools only to make PK available for every age 3 and age 4 student. It is by lottery, not by entitlement or right. You can have a spot, but it may not be exactly where you want it to be. Good grief. [/quote]

Not true -- PK3 and PK4 are an entitlement and a right. The fact that it isn't exactly where you want it to be doesn't make it any less of an entitlement. Any D.C. 3-year-old who wants to go to pre-kindergarten can go.[/quote]

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