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Anonymous wrote:Geeze. Go lick your wounds somewhere else. It's completely reasonable to have a different interpretation of what is astounding and what is not. But go ahead keep making arguments about sruff like that and taking it upon yourself to call people vulgar names.

To be fair, I find it "astounding" that people here get up in arms over being shut out of PK3 and PK4 when that is a perk not offered for free in the majority of the country. As if it is an entitlement. Another year of daycare or preschool won't kill snowflake. Costs money, yes, but that's how the rest of the country lives.

Not any of the PPs, but I'm so sick of this "rest of the country" argument. Public school in the rest of the country is sub-par, generally speaking, and childcare here in DC is both expensive and scarce. Even if I didn't have kids, I'd want my taxes to ensure that every child gets iinto a programmed pre-school. Why? Because we're hamstringing our workforce without it. Parents need to get back to work and children need every advantage on learning that they can get.

Stop criticizing it as a perk. The people who don't need it aren't complaining if they don't get it. Assume that everyone else does, because they do.

Why would anyone take issue with a policy which seeks to promote high-quality early childhood education by attacking it as a "perk.". Have you ever spent any time observing a PK classroom in DC?

(Same PP) We lotteried for five schools total. One immersion charter, three other nearby DCPS, and our IB.

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Anonymous wrote:Lesson learned here? Don't wait to apply to PK4. Entry point is clearly designed to be PK3

Damnit! You're right! We would not be on the waitlist now if we'd lotteried into PK3 at our IB JKLM last year.

Oh wait.

So how many schools did you lottery for? The WotP schools that can't accommodate all IB children for PK are pretty well known, so unless you are new to town you know if you have a good chance or a 50-50 chance or little chance to get in and depending on your chances should have lotteried for other schools (what hopefully have better odds, not equal or worse odds).

You missed the sarcasm.

I didn't miss it at all. I get it. You are IB for an upper NW school that doesn't have PS3. You said you're waitlisted for PK and I was curious to know where else you lotteried since it's widely known that many upper NW schools can't accommodate all their IB families, so unless you have a sibling Already at the school (and even then it's not a guarantee) you likely anticipated possibly being waitlisted. If you don't get in what are you doing next year? Private Preschool?

No sibling at the school yet (ideally this child will help a younger sibling vault the waitlist in a few years). Both kids are currently in daycare. The 4yo can theoretically stay there for another year, but the program is not as structured/focused as actual preschool, and we would vastly prefer to use the public school three blocks from our house.

I find it astounding that anyone could use the word free for just about anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Geeze. Go lick your wounds somewhere else. It's completely reasonable to have a different interpretation of what is astounding and what is not. But go ahead keep making arguments about sruff like that and taking it upon yourself to call people vulgar names.

To be fair, I find it "astounding" that people here get up in arms over being shut out of PK3 and PK4 when that is a perk not offered for free in the majority of the country. As if it is an entitlement. Another year of daycare or preschool won't kill snowflake. Costs money, yes, but that's how the rest of the country lives.

8.9% tax rate. FTW. When they pay that in "the rest of the country" then talk to me.

You are kidding right?

We came from a much higher taxrate area (over 10%) and still had half day kindergarten!

All in favor of it, but since when did PK3 become an entitlement? How quickly people forget! Maybe mid- and high-SES people originally opposed PK3 fearing it was an inappropriately young age to start school.

DC is lucky is has a relatively small number of children compared to the rest of the country, so we can afford what we've got.

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Anonymous wrote:Geeze. Go lick your wounds somewhere else. It's completely reasonable to have a different interpretation of what is astounding and what is not. But go ahead keep making arguments about sruff like that and taking it upon yourself to call people vulgar names.

To be fair, I find it "astounding" that people here get up in arms over being shut out of PK3 and PK4 when that is a perk not offered for free in the majority of the country. As if it is an entitlement. Another year of daycare or preschool won't kill snowflake. Costs money, yes, but that's how the rest of the country lives.

8.9% tax rate. FTW. When they pay that in "the rest of the country" then talk to me.

+1 billion

There are nearly 1000 open PK3 spots, have your shot at any of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Geeze. Go lick your wounds somewhere else. It's completely reasonable to have a different interpretation of what is astounding and what is not. But go ahead keep making arguments about sruff like that and taking it upon yourself to call people vulgar names.

To be fair, I find it "astounding" that people here get up in arms over being shut out of PK3 and PK4 when that is a perk not offered for free in the majority of the country. As if it is an entitlement. Another year of daycare or preschool won't kill snowflake. Costs money, yes, but that's how the rest of the country lives.

8.9% tax rate. FTW. When they pay that in "the rest of the country" then talk to me.

+1 billion

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Anonymous wrote:Geeze. Go lick your wounds somewhere else. It's completely reasonable to have a different interpretation of what is astounding and what is not. But go ahead keep making arguments about sruff like that and taking it upon yourself to call people vulgar names.

To be fair, I find it "astounding" that people here get up in arms over being shut out of PK3 and PK4 when that is a perk not offered for free in the majority of the country. As if it is an entitlement. Another year of daycare or preschool won't kill snowflake. Costs money, yes, but that's how the rest of the country lives.

8.9% tax rate. FTW. When they pay that in "the rest of the country" then talk to me.

Anonymous wrote:Geeze. Go lick your wounds somewhere else. It's completely reasonable to have a different interpretation of what is astounding and what is not. But go ahead keep making arguments about sruff like that and taking it upon yourself to call people vulgar names.

To be fair, I find it "astounding" that people here get up in arms over being shut out of PK3 and PK4 when that is a perk not offered for free in the majority of the country. As if it is an entitlement. Another year of daycare or preschool won't kill snowflake. Costs money, yes, but that's how the rest of the country lives.

We are rising K- and were matched with our #1 school out of 12, a Spanish immersion charter.

We were completely shut out for PS3 and pk4 including inbounds option on Capitol Hill. Ultimately taken off waitlist for PS3 for a charter after the year had started- and remained there for these two years.

Anonymous wrote:How many people who were "shut out" only applied for 4 schools or less? I find the median of 4 schools applied to surprising.

Nobody was shut out for PK3, there are still more seats than applicants. For PK4 we all have to assume nobody was shut out as the majority of applicants are already at a school.

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Anonymous wrote:Lesson learned here? Don't wait to apply to PK4. Entry point is clearly designed to be PK3

Damnit! You're right! We would not be on the waitlist now if we'd lotteried into PK3 at our IB JKLM last year.

Oh wait.

You need to lobby Cheh to go against inertia and make jklm carve out space for PK3.

why - this makes no sense

How many people who were "shut out" only applied for 4 schools or less? I find the median of 4 schools applied to surprising.