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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"We all pay in, but we don't all pay in equally."

Right - that's called democracy.

If you don't want to use the public system, available to all irrespective of the amount of taxes paid, based on  income, there's to option of going private.

If you choose not to go private, or can't afford to, then you can use the public system that's available to all citizens, regardless of income, where how much you put in doesn't give you special privileges.

It's been a long time since I took civics, whicih I understand is not taught anymore, but I think that's how it works.[/quote]

I think you are missing the civics lesson. A democracy doesn't even hope to work without an educated public.  What the dc public schools have done for the last few decades does not qualify as education. Check out the graduation and literacy rates in this city.  And you have the nerve to blame people who want to stay and fight for an improved public education system for demanding "special privilege'.  You tell them to " suck it up" or go private?  What is your definiton of special privilege, then?  How come struggling kids supposedly " get their needs met" but kids who are just fine get a substandard education?  This is a shame.[/quote]

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