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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so.  The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way.  If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.
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I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.[/quote]

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot?  You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you?  The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works.  I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

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Easy there...

You are right, the spots aren't numbered 1-28. Therefore if any of those 28 kids was from a cheating family, they would be taking a spot from a kid on the WL.

Yes we had a low number and didn't get in. Yes we "played our hand," and everyone is fine. Still does not make it right for cheaters to cheat. [/quote]

A great deal is not right in this picture, first and foremost that PG County not offering universal free PreK, or nearly enough Preschool spots to serve low-income families.  In second place, I nominate DCPS for blithely allowing scores of elementary schools to continue to fail, with disastrous proficiency pass rates in the mix. Cheaters are just as likely to end up on the WL as to get in.  You can note the immorality of cheaters cheating, or you can celebrate your singular access to non means-tested preschool and prek in every area of this great city but Upper NW.  To my knowledge, no other American city offers this.  You have Tommy Well's tireless advocacy to thank for the opportunity. [b] I don't know a single family outside Upper NW who has been shut out at every preschool or prek within two miles of their house by the start of school in ten years of paying close attention to lottery results.[/b]

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Come to the Hill where you can throw a rock and hit five families that have been shut out of ECE.[/quote]

+1.  This is my family.  And with nothing low enough to give us any hope.  I think a big part of the issue is that everywhere is filling up and so there are more people than ever in this boat. [/quote]

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