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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]These PTAs absolutely do this. Many schools collect books at book fairs to help fill shelves in poorer parts of the city and coat drives to fill sister-school requests. There are organizations who's sole purpose is to make the connection between rich and poor PTOs and many of these school participate in this.

Lafayette, for example, has an entire program called Lafayette Gives back, sponsored by the HSA, whose sole purpose is to give, and to teach kids to give, to others. This includes packing backpacks for foster kids, making care packages for first-responders and collecting baby carriers for refugees.[/quote]

Do you not see how forcing poor kids to rely on the noblesse oblige of the .01% is an enormously fucked up way to fund basic social services such as education? [/quote]

Huh? People have spent the last 4 pages complaining that rich PTAs should help poor schools. Now, when it comes to light that they do, in fact, help poorer school, it's fucked up? No one is relying on anything or forcing anyone to do anything.

Poor school kids get often X2 the funding as rich school kids. [/quote]

No, the rich PTAs should help ALL kids.  The money should go in a pot and be distributed equally to public schools in the city (not charters).  What I object to is using poor (Black and Latino) kids as a "lesson" for rich kids.  The poor don't exist to teach a lesson to rich kids, and using them as character building is grotesque.  Just fund the schools.  Barring that, pool the PTA funds.  [/quote]

No, you're wrong.  SO wrong.

Taxes are already about taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor.  We've all agree that it can happen, we dispute how much.

Now you want to impose a new penalty because wealthy parents continue to want to care for their children.  Guess what?  Even lesser-evolved animals still want to care for their children.  You don't get to penalize human parents for this.[/quote]

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