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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is [b]extremely inconvenient[/b] is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.[/quote]

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged. [/quote]

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.[/quote]

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.[/quote]

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.[/quote]

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