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@Ken,

I know several parents who applied to the maximum (6) DCPS programs and multiple non-DCPS programs, and never made it off of the waitlist for any of them.

Right, but without knowing which schools those parents applied to, we can't really evaluate that.

@dcd's take on this is very similar to mine. Here's my anecdote: a couple of years ago, some friends of ours whose daughter was turning three, and who live in Columbia Heights took a look at their local elementary school--which had open slots for PS/PK--and immediately dismissed it. They then applied to the six most sought-after elementary schools in the city. They didn't get in to any of them. They then applied to several charters--and near-miraculously got into Haynes.

If they hadn't gotten into Haynes, they would have moved out of the city. So is this evidence against universal PS/PK in DC?

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