Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coop play preschool through dc parks and rec is practically free. ($75 a session) and I think it was Monday-Friday mornings.

It's $219/month, just for the record. You seem to recall from a long time ago.

Still cheaper than the $350/month that someone said didn't exist.

The DPR program is not preschool, and not a good option for 4 year olds. It's a playgroup for younger kids and very few there are older than three (although they do accept kids 2-5 at certain locations). So it's still true that preschool for 4yos for $350/month (or anywhere close to that) doesn't exist.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coop play preschool through dc parks and rec is practically free. ($75 a session) and I think it was Monday-Friday mornings.

It's $219/month, just for the record. You seem to recall from a long time ago.

Still cheaper than the $350/month that someone said didn't exist.

Sure, but what's your point? Having attended DPR's program and a church-based morning preschool, I can assure you DPR co-op play is neither comparable to a private nursery school nor to DCPS PK. It's an ok option to give your kid some social interaction if you can't afford private preschool, but they are not going to learn much there, and it requires a substantial time commitment on the part of the parents (or the nanny/au pair for those who have them). So it's really pointless to bring it up as an alternative to Janney PK.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coop play preschool through dc parks and rec is practically free. ($75 a session) and I think it was Monday-Friday mornings.

It's $219/month, just for the record. You seem to recall from a long time ago.

Still cheaper than the $350/month that someone said didn't exist.

Anonymous wrote:The coop play preschool through dc parks and rec is practically free. ($75 a session) and I think it was Monday-Friday mornings.

It's $219/month, just for the record. You seem to recall from a long time ago.

Anonymous wrote:The coop play preschool through dc parks and rec is practically free. ($75 a session) and I think it was Monday-Friday mornings.

This is

a) hard to get in, as it's first-come-first-serve and fills within seconds, often making the website crash
b) really only 3-4 mornings a week, as you have to volunteer one day and then there are field trips you have to attend, plus many cancellations for various reasons (not only snow)

Really, it's silly to pitch a morning preschool program, even a functional private one, as a viable alternative to full-day PK.

So not only did she succeed in stealing from poor children and taxpayers, but she's proud of it.

Wow. :boggling:

Anonymous wrote:PP here -- Funny I grew up in Forest Hills too. Big house, definitely not Head Start eligible and went to Murch prek in 1977. DC was one of the first school district implemented it. Your parents may have decdied it wasn't for you or perhaps you went to a private preschool which is what two of my older siblings did since it wasn't available to them.

Here you go: http://fcd-us.org/sites/default/files/Pre-K%20for%20All%20DC%20Case%20Study.pdf

I'm the person you are trying to educate. You have succeeded, somewhat, in that I didn't know that DC's Head Stsrt preschool program was not means tested and instead was available (at least one classroom in every school building) to any family that was willing to wait in line overnight to secure a spot.

But the point still stands that your family sent you to a Head Start program as envisioned and implemented by DC. This program, created for disadvantaged children as part of LBJ's Great Society plan, was used by your family living in the big house in Forest Hills.

DC's approach to Head Stsrt eligibility when it rolled out was no doubt due to the realities of the city's demographics in the very late 60s and early 70s. As you'll recall, there weren't a lot of kids in this city at that time who -weren't- poor, in absolute numbers. Administratively, I'm sure it made sense to make the seats to kids not-at-risk, too, since as you'll recall, there just weren't that many of us attending public school in the early 1970s.

The coop play preschool through dc parks and rec is practically free. ($75 a session) and I think it was Monday-Friday mornings.

Oh hell they won't. Then their kids will flood just over EOTP and other schools only to leave at K...or shortly after if they have siblings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can send a child to a few mornings a week of preschool for a very reasonable price. If you can afford to live in Janneyville, $350/month or whatever will not kill your budget.

The school is too crowded and they need to shrink the boundary. End of story.

Please tell me where you can even get three mornings a week for $350. Doesn't sound like you have recently shopped for preschool, because the price is about double that. Not to mention that public Pre-K is full time, not a morning enrichment for people with a full-time nanny or SAHM.

Ditto. I thoroughly researched any and all preschool programs for 4/5yo within NW and couldn't find any even close to this price. I wasn't even looking for full day. But most preschools for the PreK age won't allow kids to only go to school 3 days a week and even if they do, they're still not cheap. My only option in NW was homeschool or DCPS preK.

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Anonymous wrote:2% of Janney students are FARM students.

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Janney+Elementary+School

This has to be the lowest percentage in all of DC, and also one of the lowest in all of the country.

Lowest in the country? It's not even the lowest in the souroumding neighborhoods directly around Janny across western ave. DC maybe but that is a low bar.

you must not realize how "across western ave" doesn't represent the rest of the country.

Anonymous wrote:2% of Janney students are FARM students.

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Janney+Elementary+School

This has to be the lowest percentage in all of DC, and also one of the lowest in all of the country.

Lowest in the country? It's not even the lowest in the souroumding neighborhoods directly around Janny across western ave. DC maybe but that is a low bar.

Anonymous wrote:You can send a child to a few mornings a week of preschool for a very reasonable price. If you can afford to live in Janneyville, $350/month or whatever will not kill your budget.

The school is too crowded and they need to shrink the boundary. End of story.

Please tell me where you can even get three mornings a week for $350. Doesn't sound like you have recently shopped for preschool, because the price is about double that. Not to mention that public Pre-K is full time, not a morning enrichment for people with a full-time nanny or SAHM.

You can send a child to a few mornings a week of preschool for a very reasonable price. If you can afford to live in Janneyville, $350/month or whatever will not kill your budget.

The school is too crowded and they need to shrink the boundary. End of story.

Anonymous wrote:I should include the quote from the report since you seem so adamant to think you are right:

"In 1972, DC became one of the first jurisdictions in the country to offer pre-K in public school settings. The program, operated by the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), focused solely on four-year-olds and was funded through the school-funding formula on a per-pupil basis. Services were free and available citywide on a first-come first-served basis..."

Chapter 3 if that helps you.

Thanks, PP, interesting! (NP here.)