Anonymous wrote:The nastiness thrown at simply uninformed people looking for answers never ceases to amaze me on this board. "move" "get over it" "stupid" let's hope that at least all of these schools are teaching our kids to act better than us.

Yes, I also hope our schools are teaching children how to do basic research and exercise simple thinking skills.

Anonymous wrote:The nastiness thrown at simply uninformed people looking for answers never ceases to amaze me on this board. "move" "get over it" "stupid" let's hope that at least all of these schools are teaching our kids to act better than us.

I said move. And it IS nasty and it IS ridiculous. But it’s the response I get here when I say I live eotr. So if people can tell me that then it’s fair game to tell others, right? Since it’s soooooo easy just to move.

Anonymous wrote:How has Ward 3 gotten by without PK3 to date?

Read the whole thread. This is covered (in between the usual outrage and name calling).

How has Ward 3 gotten by without PK3 to date?

The nastiness thrown at simply uninformed people looking for answers never ceases to amaze me on this board. "move" "get over it" "stupid" let's hope that at least all of these schools are teaching our kids to act better than us.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they open a pk3 program in "WNW". I'm looking forward to applying for an OOB slot for my yet to be born pk3. We live EOTR, and I work at the whole foods in Glover Park. It would be really convenient for me.

It would fill so fast with IB kids though. Also isn't the GP whole foods still closed?

Yes, it is. The PP is trolling. And yes, there would be no OOB slots, just like there isn't at any halfway popular EOTP DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:I hope they open a pk3 program in "WNW". I'm looking forward to applying for an OOB slot for my yet to be born pk3. We live EOTR, and I work at the whole foods in Glover Park. It would be really convenient for me.

It would fill so fast with IB kids though. Also isn't the GP whole foods still closed?

Anonymous wrote:I hope they open a pk3 program in "WNW". I'm looking forward to applying for an OOB slot for my yet to be born pk3. We live EOTR, and I work at the whole foods in Glover Park. It would be really convenient for me.

Apply to the Communikids program in Ward 3. It doesn’t matter where you live. The downside is it only covers PK3 and PK4.

I hope they open a pk3 program in "WNW". I'm looking forward to applying for an OOB slot for my yet to be born pk3. We live EOTR, and I work at the whole foods in Glover Park. It would be really convenient for me.

Anonymous wrote:I invite any of you whining parents to either

1) Move to a school that has prek

2) Send your child to a school that has prek. There IS a spot for your child. It might not be down the street or walking distance but no one is stopping you from prek all together

Yes. Or start advocating for redistricting that would allow for more room at the schools that don't currently have PK3. Get a group of people with little kids or who plan to have them together and go visit David Grosso and Mary Cheh. Bring a petition where people who live IB for those schools support shrinking the boundaries so that there's more space.

Or try advocating for closing Fillmore and Adams to use as PK sites with all students at the schools that don't currently have it eligible for an IB preference at one of them.

If you don't like the situation, come up with a solution to it. Bending the laws of physics to cram a bunch of toddlers into a building that has no room for them is not a solution.

I invite any of you whining parents to either

1) Move to a school that has prek

2) Send your child to a school that has prek. There IS a spot for your child. It might not be down the street or walking distance but no one is stopping you from prek all together

Stop complaining about the lack of a 3 year olds program WotP and go private. You just dropped a ton of money on a house, you should be able to afford preschool.

I think this OP's problem ("problematic" problem) is that she is trying to speak for parties that don't include her. If she was really in a WOTP great elementary, she would probably do what all our friends there do --- shrug, pay for one more year of childcare at an amazing enriching preschool, and then enjoy FOURTEEN YEARS of high quality public school. If she was a EOTP parent with school aged children, she would be agonizing over the lottery, pleasantly surprised by Prek 3 no matter where she ended up, and then agonize about middle school.

OP, you are currently inbounds at a very decent school -- send your kid there for Pre-K 3 if it's really important to you, and she'll have a great year. Then move WOTP and forget your cares. Right now you seem to be missing the true concerns of both groups.

I came to pile on the use of problematic as well. Have never seen it used in an intelligent way on this board.

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Expansion of PK3 in DC had two goals.

1) Help close the gap between poor kids and well-prepared kids. Research from Pew and others consistently shows that a dollar invested in high-quality preschool has a greater educational benefit ROI than a dollar invested at any other point in the education system.

2) Get parents of all income levels to enroll in under-enrolled DCPS schools so DCPS would stop losing so much 'market share' to charters and private schools.

That's it. The schools without Pk3 were not, and are NOT under-enrolled. They truly do NOT have space for PK3.

That's all and good but when 104 of the 111 schools have it and only 7 don't it becomes problematic, especially when it's paid for out of tax dollars

Oh cry me a river. It is not happening because parents at those schools were against it. There is no right to free preschool even if most other people have it.

+1. Please feel free to attend a Title I if you don't like how Upper NW is run.

NP. Some do, for PK. And then there's talk here on the forum that WOTP families should be excluded from the lottery and aren't welcome as "squatters" for free preschool because they will be gone by K, and anyway they are all rich enough to afford private. Which obviously is equally true for many higher SES EOTP families, who keep playing the lottery or move. Made me really glad that we did PK at a school that literally didn't have any gentrifiers at the time to give us the stink eye.