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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think services follow white children in DC. They dont need them and the extras are (in my opinion correctly) directed elsewhere. Look at all the shiny new under-enrolled schools and per pupil spending outide of ward 3.

Extras at w3 schools come from parents not the city. [/quote]

What hit me was the studies of what was available at the middle school level between schools East of the River and at Deal. They are huge.  I have had children attend a 90%  minority/ 70% Farm school and one that is 50% minority/20 % farm.  What was available at each school was huge.  The extras that go to poor schools are an extra school pychologist or new coats and backpacks.  It is not the extra computer lab or IPADs or robotics programs.   You cannot even imagine unless you have lived it the difference.  I don't know that I would have believed how different the benefits are withou the experience

As to the point that parents provide the benefits you are right, and then they use it as a tax break.  Well off parents use real estate prices to segregate SES, they use their money to provide extras and then use both of those factors to decrease the general taxation they would have paid to help the general treasury that might have helped poorer kids. [/quote]

Please don't make it sound like well-off parents are purposely doing the things you mention to get a tax break.  Everyone who owns real estate gets a tax break and the most valuable the real estate the bigger the tax break -- which means that some of the biggest real estate holders are paying the most into city coffers and not getting any return for their own children's education -- because their children are in private schools.   These rich people are not purposely giving extra - they are just paying their damn taxes like everyone else.[/quote]

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