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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harshburger!

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Even in cities where the rich and poor continue to live under the same local government, economic segregation saps political support for common, egalitarian infrastructure. Rich New Yorkers donate generously to beautify Central Park while resisting the taxation necessary to maintain parks in neighborhoods they never visit. [b]In Washington, D.C., parents in wealthier neighborhoods contribute lavishly to parent-teacher organizations that provide extra money to public schools in their neighborhoods, but they do not vote for a similar level of funding for all city schools. [url=https://udcedu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=8c14b2842199454bb57543e62f6eb5e1]Two schools in northwest Washington each raised more than half a million dollars in 2017[/url], while several schools in southeast Washington don’t even have parent-teacher organizations. [/b]Last year, for the third time since 1970, the residents of Gwinnett County, Ga., which sits on the edge of Atlanta, refused to fund an expansion of the regional transit system into their suburban county.[/i][/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-us-cities-inequality.html[/quote]

Also, whose fault is it that schools don't have a PTA? Not saying that it's necessarily the parents' fault (I imagine that low-income folks have a lot of stresses that take precedence over a PTA), but it's a bit of a stretch to imply that it's the NW parents' fault. And if you try to bring in a PTA, there might be a kind of resistance à la "don't tell us what to do because we've always done without a PTA."  Cf. gentrifying schools, or schools trying to start a dual-language program.  These kinds of op-eds over-simplify the story and make it look one-sided.[/quote]

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