Keep the Poor Students in Poor Schools

[Anonymous]

There ARE some private schools that do not offer financial aid. Why don't you all move your children to them? The British School comes to mind, and it's not hard to gain admission.

The top schools (and almost all second tier schools) adjust tuition based on a family's ability to pay. It's at the core of their educational philosophy. And, there are waiting lists of families willing to pay full tuition to get into them. If you disagree about FA, then just vote with your tuition dollars and go elsewhere. If enough of you do it, then enrollment will fall at these top schools and they'll adjust their policies. Maybe.

Not gonna do it, are you? So why waste your breath? You know what you're in for when you enroll your child. Fulfill your obligation as a member of this community that you wanted so very much to join.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you not believe that a family with a dad who is a security guard making 25K a year and a mom who is a cafeteria cook making 22k a year are hard working people? Or how about a teacher and a coach with HHI of say 90K, are they just some free loaders? How about nannies and housekeepers? The white collar workers aren't the only ones working hard. And they aren't the only ones who deserve a private school education simply because they can pay for it out of pocket.

Oh, come on. How many families with parents fitting this description are really found in DC's elite private schools, FA or no? I personally, would love to be able to fund this kind of family. It's the mid-tier fed workers, for example, or others who have managed to acquire a lot of debt and yet still qualify for FA that annoy me.

[Anonymous]

The pupose of public schools is to serve the poor students.

[Anonymous]

OH, when will this end?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There ARE some private schools that do not offer financial aid. Why don't you all move your children to them? The British School comes to mind, and it's not hard to gain admission.

The top schools (and almost all second tier schools) adjust tuition based on a family's ability to pay. It's at the core of their educational philosophy. And, there are waiting lists of families willing to pay full tuition to get into them. If you disagree about FA, then just vote with your tuition dollars and go elsewhere. If enough of you do it, then enrollment will fall at these top schools and they'll adjust their policies. Maybe.

Not gonna do it, are you? So why waste your breath? You know what you're in for when you enroll your child. Fulfill your obligation as a member of this community that you wanted so very much to join.

You don't know. You think that aid goes to well deserving families and perhaps to increase socioeconomic or racial diversity then you find out it is going out to well off non diverse families who are hiding money and driving a 7 series and going on multiple vacations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you not believe that a family with a dad who is a security guard making 25K a year and a mom who is a cafeteria cook making 22k a year are hard working people? Or how about a teacher and a coach with HHI of say 90K, are they just some free loaders? How about nannies and housekeepers? The white collar workers aren't the only ones working hard. And they aren't the only ones who deserve a private school education simply because they can pay for it out of pocket.

Oh, come on. How many families with parents fitting this description are really found in DC's elite private schools, FA or no? I personally, would love to be able to fund this kind of family. It's the mid-tier fed workers, for example, or others who have managed to acquire a lot of debt and yet still qualify for FA that annoy me.

FA recipient here. FYI, about 26% of students at DC's school receive FA. NONE of them, are "mid-tier Fed workers". After years in a school you get to know people. The people receiving FA are single parents, teachers, and people who make a combined HHI under 90K who have no assets. Making 80K, we pay pay 45 % of the tuition bill( about $1,500/mos). You are simply spreading a myth , which is untrue. The question is why? I am beginning to think that since DCUM took on advertising there are certain posts placed just to draw hits to the site by stirring controversy and this thread is one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Children born into poverty like men and woman born with fatal congenital heart disease, or unbeknownst to themselves, destined for life altering cancer or physical trauma deserve no financial aid or help. This is America. God's country. Home to the tea bag. This is democracy and free enterprise...at its best.

Agree. The source of probelen is that poor and illiterate people with too many kids are over crowding the public schools.

An America with its economic engine intact, set out to educate the illiterate, and could not find workers fast enough to build this country. If this country is in decline it is because Finance has replaced industry and innovation as means to build wealth. The ghettos have been growing since the 60's, what we need is scientific innovation, new industry and jobs. Enough squabling over the last scrap of bread people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The anger that you often see on this board is that after paying $30,000 + for our own DCs to get an education we are then asked to pay more for your children.

You should just home school.

As someone who pays $30k+ per child at private school, you make me sick. I truly hope my children never have to interact with yours.

Well, now you know how you make the rest of us feel about you.

[Anonymous]

Huh. I don't think of public schools as being for poor kids--I think of them as regular schools for regular people. Private school is for rich kids.

Signed, the 99%.

[Anonymous]

Public schools in pricy neighborhoods full of multi-million dollar homes are for rich kids. (for example: schools in Potomac, MD, Beverly Hills, CA, Hillsborough, CA, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I don't think of public schools as being for poor kids--I think of them as regular schools for regular people. Private school is for rich kids.

Signed, the 99%.

You are so out of touch. There ARE some public schools that are in poor (impoverished) areas, not JKLMM, or BCC, or arlington...we are talking Southeast DC, Ward 5...those are poor students in poor schools.

[Anonymous]

and Ward 7 & 8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There ARE some private schools that do not offer financial aid. Why don't you all move your children to them? The British School comes to mind, and it's not hard to gain admission.

The top schools (and almost all second tier schools) adjust tuition based on a family's ability to pay. It's at the core of their educational philosophy. And, there are waiting lists of families willing to pay full tuition to get into them. If you disagree about FA, then just vote with your tuition dollars and go elsewhere. If enough of you do it, then enrollment will fall at these top schools and they'll adjust their policies. Maybe.

Not gonna do it, are you? So why waste your breath? You know what you're in for when you enroll your child. Fulfill your obligation as a member of this community that you wanted so very much to join.

FYI, the British School is owned by a for profit corporation. That's why it does not offer financial aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I don't think of public schools as being for poor kids--I think of them as regular schools for regular people. Private school is for rich kids.

Signed, the 99%.

You are so out of touch. There ARE some public schools that are in poor (impoverished) areas, not JKLMM, or BCC, or arlington...we are talking Southeast DC, Ward 5...those are poor students in poor schools.

Sure, but that's a result of 60 years of regional (and national) public policy designed to create a system of apartheid where all the vast majority of poor kids are segregated in one or two isolated school districts. I'm hard-pressed to think of a single school in DC's Wards 7 or 8 that isn't at least 80% high poverty. Are there any schools with those kinds of numbers in MoCo, Fairfax, Loudon, etc???

And please, don't tell us, "Why, that's just where the poor people happen to live!" The poor people "happen" to live in those few neighborhoods in exactly the same way that black South Africans "happened" to live in Soweto. To the exact same effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I don't think of public schools as being for poor kids--I think of them as regular schools for regular people. Private school is for rich kids.

Signed, the 99%.

You are so out of touch. There ARE some public schools that are in poor (impoverished) areas, not JKLMM, or BCC, or arlington...we are talking Southeast DC, Ward 5...those are poor students in poor schools.

I think the point was that all of us not in the 1% are in the 99% ... oh, nevermind ...