With a very few exceptions, parents in Ward 3 do now and have always paid for preschool and daycare -> preschool for their 2 and 3 year olds.

With a few exceptions, we can afford to do this. Yes, we can, don't assert that because there's a few single moms in a few inexpensive rental buildings along Connecticut and Wisconsin that MOST of us parents pay for preschool near our homes. A few do it in conjunction with our jobs downtown at Bright Horizons, JCC and so forth.

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Anonymous wrote:PS3 is part of DC's implementation of HeadStart and a method to bring parents in the door to under attended DCPS schools. PS3 for WOTP is a poor policy choice.

But I thought we were "One City"? Shouldn't all people have access to the same opportunities?

You do have the same access/opportunities/chances. What is so hard to understand about that, OP?

So in your world, having access to PS3 at your close bye neighborhood school is equivalent to a Ward 3 parent having to get their 3 year old up at 6am and taking a 45 minute bus/metro ride to a PS3 program on the other side the park? Really, that's the "same" access?

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Anonymous wrote:PS3 is part of DC's implementation of HeadStart and a method to bring parents in the door to under attended DCPS schools. PS3 for WOTP is a poor policy choice.

But I thought we were "One City"? Shouldn't all people have access to the same opportunities?

You do have the same access/opportunities/chances. What is so hard to understand about that, OP?

Anonymous wrote:Would you like an EBT card and a Section 8 voucher?

You funny, huh! I have the EBT card and bought a condo in ward 3 with money saved.Any section 8 housing in ward 3?

Would you like an EBT card and a Section 8 voucher?

Anonymous wrote:PS3 is part of DC's implementation of HeadStart and a method to bring parents in the door to under attended DCPS schools. PS3 for WOTP is a poor policy choice.

But I thought we were "One City"? Shouldn't all people have access to the same opportunities?

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Anonymous wrote:No space for PS3 schools in WotP schools. It's not a required grade, so better to dedicate sufficient classroom space to required grades than to cram them into classes of 30. DPR camps WotP are great and ridiculously cheap.

This is your answer.

True, but then the city should give vouchers or tax reduction or something to compensate those excluded from what has become a universal program. It sounds a bit funny to say, the city is investing is pre-school for all...except for Ward 3 kids, since their parents are supposed to be filthy rich. Perhaps we don't have the right to clean water, either?

There are open PS3 spots in DC schools that you can enroll in. You will have to travel from your local IB school zone, but many families from other wards travel across the city for PS3. Nobody is excluding you if you want to enroll your child in an open spot in Wards 6,7,or 8.

PS3 is part of DC's implementation of HeadStart and a method to bring parents in the door to under attended DCPS schools. PS3 for WOTP is a poor policy choice.

Anonymous wrote:Most Ward 5 parents are applying OOB or charter too so you are in the same boat. Except that you have a guarantee good spot come kindergarten. So the lottery is much higher stakes for us. And we are competing with you for PS3 spots!

+1 (from a Ward 3 parent).

Yes, we are at a disadvantage in that we have no IB PS3 options. But IMO this disadvantage is offset by (a) our odds, as good as anyone else's, of getting in to a charter for PS3, which would entail a shlep no greater than many EotP families undertake daily; and (b) our IB advantage for fine PK4 programs; (c) our guaranteed seats in kindergarten.

"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far." -- Joe Walsh

Part if the problem is that those schools are already over subscribed that there is not space. You could do what the rest of us that live paycheck to paycheck do and drive across town for the benefit. I know there were openings in other parts of the city.

Thanks 17:11! That makes sense. Hopefully the renovations will stay on track.

Anonymous wrote:I have heard Hearst might still get PS3 in 2015-16, but I probably read that on DCUM so who knows.

Hearst parent here, and the school was told this year that we could have gotten a PS3 for 2014-15 if the new building had been ready, which unfortunately it won't be. However, this seems to indicate that we will have one in 2015-16. Sadly, a year too late for us.

I have heard Hearst might still get PS3 in 2015-16, but I probably read that on DCUM so who knows.

I believe Hearst was supposed to receive PS3 for 15 students after the renovation but school was told by central office that they could not have funding for PS3.

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Anonymous wrote:No space for PS3 schools in WotP schools. It's not a required grade, so better to dedicate sufficient classroom space to required grades than to cram them into classes of 30. DPR camps WotP are great and ridiculously cheap.

This is your answer.

True, but then the city should give vouchers or tax reduction or something to compensate those excluded from what has become a universal program. It sounds a bit funny to say, the city is investing is pre-school for all...except for Ward 3 kids, since their parents are supposed to be filthy rich. Perhaps we don't have the right to clean water, either?

You are nuts. You have not been excluded from anything. You can lottery into a PS program elsewhere in the city if you wish. My IB school didn't even hold a lottery for PS3 because they didn't have enough applications to fill their spots. You weren't excluded from anything. Now, if you're saying you don't want to travel to a different ward for PS-3, that's a different story.