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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is that "failed logic" PP?  You seem to have an expectation of getting perks.

But, the money provided to charters by OSSE doesn't cover perks.

Yes, some of the parents can, on their own, afford to pay for some perks.  But that doesn't mean those same parents can afford to pay for the perks for several other hundred kids as well.

Money doesn't grow on trees.[/quote]

I'm not the PP you're talking to or who said it, but after reading all these comments, it seems like that PP was responding specifically to this person and to the bolded:

[quote=Anonymous]And she's as tired as ever, but she does serve a purpose.  With a WL in the hundreds for a handful of seats I know I would rather (and I'm sure LAMB and 2R and MV are in the same boat) we had a mechanism to could sort out the uncommitted, the wafflers, the band-wagon jumpers, etc. - all in advance.

[b]I'd personally rather that the only families who apply to YY are those who are excited about Mandarin, and willing to set up Mandarin playgroups and tutoring sessions, and maybe even music lessons and private sports[/b].  [/quote]

All the comments about how the extras or perks aren't covered by school funding make sense.  The idea though that there are parents at YY who wish that only parents who are willing (and obviously able, i.e. can afford it) to "set up Mandarin playgroups, tutoring sessions, and maybe even music lessons and private sports" speaks to a desire to have a very specific type of parent at YY: families with the time, desire and CASH to support these things.

I assume this PP just speaks for themself, and hopefully doesn't represent the overall parent perspective at YY.  No, those programs don't fund themselves, and they sound lovely to be able to have where possible.  But to prefer that only parents who supported them (which has to include affording them/paying for them, as that PP themself pointed out repeatedly) applied to the school is no doubt an elitist, uber-privileged perspective.  [/quote]

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