Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:57     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


But I waaaaaaant it . . .
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:52     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
We are in the Lafayette boundary and our child went through the school. So embarrassed by this whole "save prek at Lafayette" effort. It's so tone deaf. I expect it is doing more harm to their effort than it is helping it.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:50     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


If you want high-quality public school system, you also want upper middle-income families enrolling in that school system. This is particularly so in DC given the offerings of neighboring jurisdictions. Snark does not good public policy make.


+1

So many people on here argue the only way to improve schools is to increase SES and racial diversity. And then they turn around and say a whole group of people can just pay for private.


That "whole group of people" has clearly shown their hand in this case: They do not want to do anything to increase SES and racial diversity. In fact, they're staunchly against it. So yes, they can go pay for private if they don't want any brown kids at their school.


Exactly this.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:43     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


If you want high-quality public school system, you also want upper middle-income families enrolling in that school system. This is particularly so in DC given the offerings of neighboring jurisdictions. Snark does not good public policy make.


+1

So many people on here argue the only way to improve schools is to increase SES and racial diversity. And then they turn around and say a whole group of people can just pay for private.


That "whole group of people" has clearly shown their hand in this case: They do not want to do anything to increase SES and racial diversity. In fact, they're staunchly against it. So yes, they can go pay for private if they don't want any brown kids at their school.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:30     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


If you want high-quality public school system, you also want upper middle-income families enrolling in that school system. This is particularly so in DC given the offerings of neighboring jurisdictions. Snark does not good public policy make.


+1

So many people on here argue the only way to improve schools is to increase SES and racial diversity. And then they turn around and say a whole group of people can just pay for private.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:21     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


If you want high-quality public school system, you also want upper middle-income families enrolling in that school system. This is particularly so in DC given the offerings of neighboring jurisdictions. Snark does not good public policy make.


They will still enroll. In kindergarten.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:18     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


If you want high-quality public school system, you also want upper middle-income families enrolling in that school system. This is particularly so in DC given the offerings of neighboring jurisdictions. Snark does not good public policy make.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 12:02     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Will students be bussed from Lafayette to the new location?

That would make the move a lot more palatable.


I believe that I heard they're exploring staggered start and end times.


They'd have to do that. You can't pick up your 2nd grader and your Pk'er from two different locations at the same time.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:58     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:Will students be bussed from Lafayette to the new location?

That would make the move a lot more palatable.


I believe that I heard they're exploring staggered start and end times.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:56     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you oppose the move please sign the petition!
https://www.savelafayetteprek.com/


Opposing the move means no more pre-k for Lafayette, so this seems like a strangely-named petition. If you want pre-k for the school, you need the new location. If you just oppose the concept of pre-k taking place at another location (that you didn't get to choose), you're not saving anything because there's not room to keep it at Lafayette and there's not another location on the table.


This! It's inaptly named. These parents should rename it "Save Our School From Brown OOB Kids!" because that's what they're really opposing here.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:53     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


+1. PK is going to go the way of the dinosaur for most schools WTOP anyway, might as well get used to it.


It seems like you are simultaneously arguing for no PK WOTP plus moving Lafayette PK to Brightwood because you view some people as crybabies?
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:52     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Will students be bussed from Lafayette to the new location?

That would make the move a lot more palatable.


How do you bus 4 year olds in car seats? Seems like a waste of money to accommodate a bunch of spoiled parents.


My kid -- and many other 4 year olds with IEPs -- takes the school bus. No car seats needed for the vast majority.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:46     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.


+1. PK is going to go the way of the dinosaur for most schools WTOP anyway, might as well get used to it.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:44     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Let me break out my tiny violin for the LF parents living in $1.5 million dollar houses who want free preschool. Sorry. The program was never about you. You can pay for PK just like your neighbors across the line in Chevy chase Maryland. Stop being entitled.
Anonymous
Post 12/10/2020 11:40     Subject: Anyone on tonight’s Lafayette PK4 call - location move
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you oppose the move please sign the petition!
https://www.savelafayetteprek.com/


Opposing the move means no more pre-k for Lafayette, so this seems like a strangely-named petition. If you want pre-k for the school, you need the new location. If you just oppose the concept of pre-k taking place at another location (that you didn't get to choose), you're not saving anything because there's not room to keep it at Lafayette and there's not another location on the table.


There are other solutions. The school wants the Brightwood building.
They could make it work on the main campus. Other upper NW schools also have overcrowding.


I don't know what the bolded means.