Why racial segregation is unacceptable but socioeconomic segregation is ok in private schools

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Anonymous wrote:The only way for private schools to be more economically diverse in this area to offer school vouchers so that any kid can go to any school they want and are capable of getting in. The vouchers would have to be enough to at least the tuition amount of the lowest private school. This program would force public schools to shape up their curriculum and quality if they want to stay open. Open competition is always a good thing.

Texas is starting this program next year and you can already see the MC families gaming the system to get their kids priority. Private school applications at my kids’ school was up 270% this year. Really it is taking money away from the public schools and sponsoring MC families to go to private school. My kid was already in private with ADHD - we have parents pay tuition so this is just a discount for already wealthy people. The politicians know this.

It's not taking money away, the money follows the kids. If the MC kid isn't there, the school doesn't get the money. The school that kid goes to gets instead. What's the problem?

Let me explain - I’ll make the math easy.

Say a public school gets 10k for a 10 kid class now. With the vouchers 5 of those public school kids go to private school and augment that 2x. The public school now has 5k and the private (now with 10k extra) can raise their tuition 7%, plus they still have large endowments to buy extras that the public school cannot afford. The private school kids get much much more, while the public schools suffer more. It’s really very simple.

It will pass legislation because people like me want the discount and people like you think you can get a better education. It’s already got my vote and my kids would be attending private anyway. So my tax money earmarked for a public school I don’t use is now going to subsidize my kid instead of yours.

Forgot to mention - those private schools that will accept he influx of ex-public kids will just get harder to get into, so they’ll rely more on legacy and recommendations - so if you’re not already upper class the door will shut tight and be sealed.

Maybe it's time for the rich people in publics to open their checkbooks and donate to their public schools the way private school parents do. There are quite a few of them according to PPs in here. Write those checks, and be the change. Don't they believe in their school enough to support it and help cover the needs?

Yeah every April 15th

Private school parents pay for public school too. And they pay a lot more than most.

Private school parents do not pay a lot more than most for public school through taxes. In absolutely numbers, working class people pay more as there are more of them. Your individual tax payment is a drop in the bucket in the city budget. Your payment is much closer to the individual payment of a working class person than it is to the receipts of the city’s top taxpayers (they aren’t individuals). Get over yourself. You aren’t that rich, you aren’t that smart.

They are the type to say “we pay the bills around here”. No, you just pay your kid’s tuition. That’s like someone who pays tuition at Harvard saying they pay the bills around Harvard. You don’t pay the teacher’s salary, your tuition is less than the lowest paid teacher.

You and PP need a quick lesson in simple math (obviously public school education). A tax payer who makes $1M (and many private school parents do) has an average effective tax rate of about 10%. A person with an income of $150k (MC) has an effective tax rate of 8%. DC uses approximately 20% of tax revenue for public schools. So the private school parents pays 20k/yr for your kid to go to school and the MC person pays $2400. So, yeah, rich people are already subsidizing your kids. Stop whining and wanting more money from us. And YES I’m absolutely voting for vouchers because I’d rather get a discount to send my kid to private school than pay for your kids.

If you have a problem with this, you should stop paying taxes and stop being a member of society. Go off to your own version of Epstein’s island maybe?

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to dc and I noticed the stark difference between the two types of segregation. Private schools are happy if they are racially diverse, but not so happy to be diverse in terms of socioeconomic groups. If find this attitude a bit schizophrenic. Do you think this is ok?

How do people not recognize that this is a troll? This form has a notorious troll and I would be willing to bet big money that this is the same troll again.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to dc and I noticed the stark difference between the two types of segregation. Private schools are happy if they are racially diverse, but not so happy to be diverse in terms of socioeconomic groups. If find this attitude a bit schizophrenic. Do you think this is ok?

How do people not recognize that this is a troll? This form has a notorious troll and I would be willing to bet big money that this is the same troll again.

Oops. Forum.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to dc and I noticed the stark difference between the two types of segregation. Private schools are happy if they are racially diverse, but not so happy to be diverse in terms of socioeconomic groups. If find this attitude a bit schizophrenic. Do you think this is ok?

How do people not recognize that this is a troll? This form has a notorious troll and I would be willing to bet big money that this is the same troll again.

Everyone knows its a troll but if we stopped responding to trolls we'd have like 3 threads a week, Maret vs. GDS, GDS vs. Sidwell, Sidwell vs. Maret

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Anonymous wrote:OP brings up a valid point that DCUM liberals like to ignore so that they can appear virtuous while perpetuating economic inequality.

What makes a person "liberal" is their political views on how our governement should serve the people. Do you support tax dollars going to free and appropriate public education for all, while simultaneously believing in the economic freedom to opt out of using that public service by homeschooling or choosing to pay for school?

Or are you "conservative" and feel that no federal government funds should go to education, and states should decide for themselves how or whether to educate the people with state and local tax dollars? Same divide at that government level as well, with the conservative default being little to no moeny for education, and the liberal view supporting taxes to support free public education for all.

Or are you the brand of conservative that believes that if the government supports public education at all, it should also take some of that money out of the universal public school pool (diminishing the universal) and give it to some taxpayers to pay a tiny part of private school fees (which only benefits those who can afford the balance of tuition)? Note that this position is a double win for the wealthy conservative -- it is essentially a tax break for the rich, taking back that portion of their tax payment that was supposed to support public education, while also getting a government discount on private tution fees.

The political liberal position is that we all pay into the public education system, but we are not obligated to use it, but that not using it is a choice that an individual should bear the cost of -- not everyone else.

Which of these positions goes the furtherst to promote economic opportunity? I say opportunity, because economic 'equality' is a false concept, even in the most socialist or communitst socitey, but absolutely in a capilalist economy.

The quesiton you seem to raise is how should a person with liberal political views, who also has wealth, educate their children?

You suggest that if they choose private education for their children, they are "promoting economic inequality"? How so? They are paying taxes, so are financially supporting public programs, including public education. They also are paying more for a service, education, that is supporting the salaries of additional people in the education community. Their kids are getting an education, which may or may not be better or even worse than their local public school, which I am assuming is where you think their kids should go. But does attending a public school promote economic equality? How exactly? What if they homeschool? What if they are very religious and choose religious school? Do those choices promote economic inequality too?

Wealthy or poor a kid may or may not succeed no matter where they are educated. Is it the education they are getting that determines the outcome for the wealthy kid? Or is is the fact that they will start life with an economic cushion thanks to their parents (who themselves may have come from poverty through public education, but were smart and worked really hard or got lucky in business)? Will that not be true for that wealthy kid whether they attended private or public school or homeschool or religious school?

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Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: most rich people are aholes.

BREAKING: most people WANT to be rich!

BREAKING : Most parents in DCUM are not even rich. They just want to dream about it.

So true! Doesn’t stop everyone regardless of where they live from WANTING to be rich. I see this even in my Dutch friends in a socialist(ish) Econ where everyone is MC

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to dc and I noticed the stark difference between the two types of segregation. Private schools are happy if they are racially diverse, but not so happy to be diverse in terms of socioeconomic groups. If find this attitude a bit schizophrenic. Do you think this is ok?

How do people not recognize that this is a troll? This form has a notorious troll and I would be willing to bet big money that this is the same troll again.

Somehow the OP is the troll, and all the parents posting snarky comments are the victims.

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Anonymous wrote:OP brings up a valid point that DCUM liberals like to ignore so that they can appear virtuous while perpetuating economic inequality.

What makes a person "liberal" is their political views on how our governement should serve the people. Do you support tax dollars going to free and appropriate public education for all, while simultaneously believing in the economic freedom to opt out of using that public service by homeschooling or choosing to pay for school?

Or are you "conservative" and feel that no federal government funds should go to education, and states should decide for themselves how or whether to educate the people with state and local tax dollars? Same divide at that government level as well, with the conservative default being little to no moeny for education, and the liberal view supporting taxes to support free public education for all.

Or are you the brand of conservative that believes that if the government supports public education at all, it should also take some of that money out of the universal public school pool (diminishing the universal) and give it to some taxpayers to pay a tiny part of private school fees (which only benefits those who can afford the balance of tuition)? Note that this position is a double win for the wealthy conservative -- it is essentially a tax break for the rich, taking back that portion of their tax payment that was supposed to support public education, while also getting a government discount on private tution fees.

The political liberal position is that we all pay into the public education system, but we are not obligated to use it, but that not using it is a choice that an individual should bear the cost of -- not everyone else.

Which of these positions goes the furtherst to promote economic opportunity? I say opportunity, because economic 'equality' is a false concept, even in the most socialist or communitst socitey, but absolutely in a capilalist economy.

The quesiton you seem to raise is how should a person with liberal political views, who also has wealth, educate their children?

You suggest that if they choose private education for their children, they are "promoting economic inequality"? How so? They are paying taxes, so are financially supporting public programs, including public education. They also are paying more for a service, education, that is supporting the salaries of additional people in the education community. Their kids are getting an education, which may or may not be better or even worse than their local public school, which I am assuming is where you think their kids should go. But does attending a public school promote economic equality? How exactly? What if they homeschool? What if they are very religious and choose religious school? Do those choices promote economic inequality too?

Wealthy or poor a kid may or may not succeed no matter where they are educated. Is it the education they are getting that determines the outcome for the wealthy kid? Or is is the fact that they will start life with an economic cushion thanks to their parents (who themselves may have come from poverty through public education, but were smart and worked really hard or got lucky in business)? Will that not be true for that wealthy kid whether they attended private or public school or homeschool or religious school?

Boooooring.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to dc and I noticed the stark difference between the two types of segregation. Private schools are happy if they are racially diverse, but not so happy to be diverse in terms of socioeconomic groups. If find this attitude a bit schizophrenic. Do you think this is ok?

How do people not recognize that this is a troll? This form has a notorious troll and I would be willing to bet big money that this is the same troll again.

Somehow the OP is the troll, and all the parents posting snarky comments are the victims.

I never said the parents are victims. The OP’s question wasn’t genuine though. It’s a ridiculous question design with the sole goal of making private school parents defensive. Yawn.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop trolling. So earning less than 250k a year and not being able to pay 60k in this housing market means you have problems?

If you are asking for charity, i.e. financial aid, then yes.

So you think that people who receive financial aid and scholarships in college are asking for charity? If you do, you are obtuse and insolent. These schools cost more in tuition than many colleges.

It's weird to me that full-pay parents think that they are paying for "charity." No, you're not. You're paying the price set by the school for tuition. The school then budgets the whole pool of money as it sees fit. The school has determined that offering some amount of FA is in its best interest, for whatever reason: attracting more applicants and smarter kids, or fulfilling its founder's mission, or good PR, or whatever. But it's the school's money to spend, not yours. And schools generally don't give FA out of the goodness of their hearts; they do it because it serves the school in some way.

It's just like paying for a car, and then the dealership decides to sponsor the local Little League team or endow a scholarship or whatever.

I'm full pay for two kids. It's painful. However, I in no way shape or form agree with the charity concept nor do I see FA students as detracting from my kids' experiences. I find that most people are decent and reasonable. Most posters, well, that's another type.

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I find that most people are decent and reasonable. Most posters, well, that's another type.

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Anonymous wrote:The only way for private schools to be more economically diverse in this area to offer school vouchers so that any kid can go to any school they want and are capable of getting in. The vouchers would have to be enough to at least the tuition amount of the lowest private school. This program would force public schools to shape up their curriculum and quality if they want to stay open. Open competition is always a good thing.

Texas is starting this program next year and you can already see the MC families gaming the system to get their kids priority. Private school applications at my kids’ school was up 270% this year. Really it is taking money away from the public schools and sponsoring MC families to go to private school. My kid was already in private with ADHD - we have parents pay tuition so this is just a discount for already wealthy people. The politicians know this.

It's not taking money away, the money follows the kids. If the MC kid isn't there, the school doesn't get the money. The school that kid goes to gets instead. What's the problem?

Let me explain - I’ll make the math easy.

Say a public school gets 10k for a 10 kid class now. With the vouchers 5 of those public school kids go to private school and augment that 2x. The public school now has 5k and the private (now with 10k extra) can raise their tuition 7%, plus they still have large endowments to buy extras that the public school cannot afford. The private school kids get much much more, while the public schools suffer more. It’s really very simple.

It will pass legislation because people like me want the discount and people like you think you can get a better education. It’s already got my vote and my kids would be attending private anyway. So my tax money earmarked for a public school I don’t use is now going to subsidize my kid instead of yours.

Forgot to mention - those private schools that will accept he influx of ex-public kids will just get harder to get into, so they’ll rely more on legacy and recommendations - so if you’re not already upper class the door will shut tight and be sealed.

Maybe it's time for the rich people in publics to open their checkbooks and donate to their public schools the way private school parents do. There are quite a few of them according to PPs in here. Write those checks, and be the change. Don't they believe in their school enough to support it and help cover the needs?

Yeah every April 15th

Private school parents pay for public school too. And they pay a lot more than most.

Private school parents do not pay a lot more than most for public school through taxes. In absolutely numbers, working class people pay more as there are more of them. Your individual tax payment is a drop in the bucket in the city budget. Your payment is much closer to the individual payment of a working class person than it is to the receipts of the city’s top taxpayers (they aren’t individuals). Get over yourself. You aren’t that rich, you aren’t that smart.

They are the type to say “we pay the bills around here”. No, you just pay your kid’s tuition. That’s like someone who pays tuition at Harvard saying they pay the bills around Harvard. You don’t pay the teacher’s salary, your tuition is less than the lowest paid teacher.

You and PP need a quick lesson in simple math (obviously public school education). A tax payer who makes $1M (and many private school parents do) has an average effective tax rate of about 10%. A person with an income of $150k (MC) has an effective tax rate of 8%. DC uses approximately 20% of tax revenue for public schools. So the private school parents pays 20k/yr for your kid to go to school and the MC person pays $2400. So, yeah, rich people are already subsidizing your kids. Stop whining and wanting more money from us. And YES I’m absolutely voting for vouchers because I’d rather get a discount to send my kid to private school than pay for your kids.

If you move to Texas, you will not pay state income tax, and the average IQ in dc will be higher. Is a win for everyone.

Maybe I will St John’s and St Marks are miles ahead of any DC school - it must be your DC snobbery to think everyone in TX is as dumb as you.

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Anonymous wrote:The only way for private schools to be more economically diverse in this area to offer school vouchers so that any kid can go to any school they want and are capable of getting in. The vouchers would have to be enough to at least the tuition amount of the lowest private school. This program would force public schools to shape up their curriculum and quality if they want to stay open. Open competition is always a good thing.

Texas is starting this program next year and you can already see the MC families gaming the system to get their kids priority. Private school applications at my kids’ school was up 270% this year. Really it is taking money away from the public schools and sponsoring MC families to go to private school. My kid was already in private with ADHD - we have parents pay tuition so this is just a discount for already wealthy people. The politicians know this.

It's not taking money away, the money follows the kids. If the MC kid isn't there, the school doesn't get the money. The school that kid goes to gets instead. What's the problem?

Let me explain - I’ll make the math easy.

Say a public school gets 10k for a 10 kid class now. With the vouchers 5 of those public school kids go to private school and augment that 2x. The public school now has 5k and the private (now with 10k extra) can raise their tuition 7%, plus they still have large endowments to buy extras that the public school cannot afford. The private school kids get much much more, while the public schools suffer more. It’s really very simple.

It will pass legislation because people like me want the discount and people like you think you can get a better education. It’s already got my vote and my kids would be attending private anyway. So my tax money earmarked for a public school I don’t use is now going to subsidize my kid instead of yours.

Forgot to mention - those private schools that will accept he influx of ex-public kids will just get harder to get into, so they’ll rely more on legacy and recommendations - so if you’re not already upper class the door will shut tight and be sealed.

Maybe it's time for the rich people in publics to open their checkbooks and donate to their public schools the way private school parents do. There are quite a few of them according to PPs in here. Write those checks, and be the change. Don't they believe in their school enough to support it and help cover the needs?

Yeah every April 15th

Private school parents pay for public school too. And they pay a lot more than most.

Private school parents do not pay a lot more than most for public school through taxes. In absolutely numbers, working class people pay more as there are more of them. Your individual tax payment is a drop in the bucket in the city budget. Your payment is much closer to the individual payment of a working class person than it is to the receipts of the city’s top taxpayers (they aren’t individuals). Get over yourself. You aren’t that rich, you aren’t that smart.

They are the type to say “we pay the bills around here”. No, you just pay your kid’s tuition. That’s like someone who pays tuition at Harvard saying they pay the bills around Harvard. You don’t pay the teacher’s salary, your tuition is less than the lowest paid teacher.

You and PP need a quick lesson in simple math (obviously public school education). A tax payer who makes $1M (and many private school parents do) has an average effective tax rate of about 10%. A person with an income of $150k (MC) has an effective tax rate of 8%. DC uses approximately 20% of tax revenue for public schools. So the private school parents pays 20k/yr for your kid to go to school and the MC person pays $2400. So, yeah, rich people are already subsidizing your kids. Stop whining and wanting more money from us. And YES I’m absolutely voting for vouchers because I’d rather get a discount to send my kid to private school than pay for your kids.

If you have a problem with this, you should stop paying taxes and stop being a member of society. Go off to your own version of Epstein’s island maybe?

There were. Ton of posts that said rich people don’t pay for public school. These numbers show they absolutely DO! I didn’t see any posts of people having a problem with it. If they did you should have responded to those people.

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Anonymous wrote:I am new to dc and I noticed the stark difference between the two types of segregation. Private schools are happy if they are racially diverse, but not so happy to be diverse in terms of socioeconomic groups. If find this attitude a bit schizophrenic. Do you think this is ok?

How do people not recognize that this is a troll? This form has a notorious troll and I would be willing to bet big money that this is the same troll again.

Somehow the OP is the troll, and all the parents posting snarky comments are the victims.

I never said the parents are victims. The OP’s question wasn’t genuine though. It’s a ridiculous question design with the sole goal of making private school parents defensive. Yawn.

Poor private schools parents. They are so naive that they need your help to spot a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:The only way for private schools to be more economically diverse in this area to offer school vouchers so that any kid can go to any school they want and are capable of getting in. The vouchers would have to be enough to at least the tuition amount of the lowest private school. This program would force public schools to shape up their curriculum and quality if they want to stay open. Open competition is always a good thing.

Texas is starting this program next year and you can already see the MC families gaming the system to get their kids priority. Private school applications at my kids’ school was up 270% this year. Really it is taking money away from the public schools and sponsoring MC families to go to private school. My kid was already in private with ADHD - we have parents pay tuition so this is just a discount for already wealthy people. The politicians know this.

It's not taking money away, the money follows the kids. If the MC kid isn't there, the school doesn't get the money. The school that kid goes to gets instead. What's the problem?

Let me explain - I’ll make the math easy.

Say a public school gets 10k for a 10 kid class now. With the vouchers 5 of those public school kids go to private school and augment that 2x. The public school now has 5k and the private (now with 10k extra) can raise their tuition 7%, plus they still have large endowments to buy extras that the public school cannot afford. The private school kids get much much more, while the public schools suffer more. It’s really very simple.

It will pass legislation because people like me want the discount and people like you think you can get a better education. It’s already got my vote and my kids would be attending private anyway. So my tax money earmarked for a public school I don’t use is now going to subsidize my kid instead of yours.

Forgot to mention - those private schools that will accept he influx of ex-public kids will just get harder to get into, so they’ll rely more on legacy and recommendations - so if you’re not already upper class the door will shut tight and be sealed.

Maybe it's time for the rich people in publics to open their checkbooks and donate to their public schools the way private school parents do. There are quite a few of them according to PPs in here. Write those checks, and be the change. Don't they believe in their school enough to support it and help cover the needs?

Yeah every April 15th

Private school parents pay for public school too. And they pay a lot more than most.

Private school parents do not pay a lot more than most for public school through taxes. In absolutely numbers, working class people pay more as there are more of them. Your individual tax payment is a drop in the bucket in the city budget. Your payment is much closer to the individual payment of a working class person than it is to the receipts of the city’s top taxpayers (they aren’t individuals). Get over yourself. You aren’t that rich, you aren’t that smart.

They are the type to say “we pay the bills around here”. No, you just pay your kid’s tuition. That’s like someone who pays tuition at Harvard saying they pay the bills around Harvard. You don’t pay the teacher’s salary, your tuition is less than the lowest paid teacher.

You and PP need a quick lesson in simple math (obviously public school education). A tax payer who makes $1M (and many private school parents do) has an average effective tax rate of about 10%. A person with an income of $150k (MC) has an effective tax rate of 8%. DC uses approximately 20% of tax revenue for public schools. So the private school parents pays 20k/yr for your kid to go to school and the MC person pays $2400. So, yeah, rich people are already subsidizing your kids. Stop whining and wanting more money from us. And YES I’m absolutely voting for vouchers because I’d rather get a discount to send my kid to private school than pay for your kids.

If you move to Texas, you will not pay state income tax, and the average IQ in dc will be higher. Is a win for everyone.

Maybe I will St John’s and St Marks are miles ahead of any DC school - it must be your DC snobbery to think everyone in TX is as dumb as you.

Not at all.if you read the post carefully, I just implied that you are dumb. Not Texans.

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Anonymous wrote:The only way for private schools to be more economically diverse in this area to offer school vouchers so that any kid can go to any school they want and are capable of getting in. The vouchers would have to be enough to at least the tuition amount of the lowest private school. This program would force public schools to shape up their curriculum and quality if they want to stay open. Open competition is always a good thing.

Texas is starting this program next year and you can already see the MC families gaming the system to get their kids priority. Private school applications at my kids’ school was up 270% this year. Really it is taking money away from the public schools and sponsoring MC families to go to private school. My kid was already in private with ADHD - we have parents pay tuition so this is just a discount for already wealthy people. The politicians know this.

It's not taking money away, the money follows the kids. If the MC kid isn't there, the school doesn't get the money. The school that kid goes to gets instead. What's the problem?

Let me explain - I’ll make the math easy.

Say a public school gets 10k for a 10 kid class now. With the vouchers 5 of those public school kids go to private school and augment that 2x. The public school now has 5k and the private (now with 10k extra) can raise their tuition 7%, plus they still have large endowments to buy extras that the public school cannot afford. The private school kids get much much more, while the public schools suffer more. It’s really very simple.

It will pass legislation because people like me want the discount and people like you think you can get a better education. It’s already got my vote and my kids would be attending private anyway. So my tax money earmarked for a public school I don’t use is now going to subsidize my kid instead of yours.

Forgot to mention - those private schools that will accept he influx of ex-public kids will just get harder to get into, so they’ll rely more on legacy and recommendations - so if you’re not already upper class the door will shut tight and be sealed.

Maybe it's time for the rich people in publics to open their checkbooks and donate to their public schools the way private school parents do. There are quite a few of them according to PPs in here. Write those checks, and be the change. Don't they believe in their school enough to support it and help cover the needs?

Yeah every April 15th

Private school parents pay for public school too. And they pay a lot more than most.

Private school parents do not pay a lot more than most for public school through taxes. In absolutely numbers, working class people pay more as there are more of them. Your individual tax payment is a drop in the bucket in the city budget. Your payment is much closer to the individual payment of a working class person than it is to the receipts of the city’s top taxpayers (they aren’t individuals). Get over yourself. You aren’t that rich, you aren’t that smart.

They are the type to say “we pay the bills around here”. No, you just pay your kid’s tuition. That’s like someone who pays tuition at Harvard saying they pay the bills around Harvard. You don’t pay the teacher’s salary, your tuition is less than the lowest paid teacher.

You and PP need a quick lesson in simple math (obviously public school education). A tax payer who makes $1M (and many private school parents do) has an average effective tax rate of about 10%. A person with an income of $150k (MC) has an effective tax rate of 8%. DC uses approximately 20% of tax revenue for public schools. So the private school parents pays 20k/yr for your kid to go to school and the MC person pays $2400. So, yeah, rich people are already subsidizing your kids. Stop whining and wanting more money from us. And YES I’m absolutely voting for vouchers because I’d rather get a discount to send my kid to private school than pay for your kids.

If you have a problem with this, you should stop paying taxes and stop being a member of society. Go off to your own version of Epstein’s island maybe?

There were. Ton of posts that said rich people don’t pay for public school. These numbers show they absolutely DO! I didn’t see any posts of people having a problem with it. If they did you should have responded to those people.

No they don’t. First of all his numbers are bogus. No that makes 1million in DC is a w2 employee. They would be partners. Secondly, even using his bogus numbers it amounts to less than the per pupil cost of one student in DCPS. That is not “footing the bill”.