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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, as long as every school has what it needs, what's wrong with affluent parents topping up the budget by hiring teachers aides etc.?  This happens all over the country.

We're certainly not going to close the achievement gap as a country by limiting PTA contributions. Keeping well-off parents in the public school system benefits the low and moderate income students who attend the school, and swells city coffers by keeping their tax dollars in the city. DC wouldn't be better off if well-heeled JKLM, Brent, Maury, Ross etc. parents who contribute generously to PTA budgets run to the burbs or privates in search of the favorable instructor:student ratios and in-school enrichment PTA contributions help provide.

Please find a new cause, jealous PPs.  PTA bashing is pathetic. [/quote]

Actually if those well-heeled families leave for the suburbs or choose private schools, [b]the city and its coffers would be better off. Families with kids use more city services[/b]. [/quote]

I don't know if your tax vs cost calculations are correct, but aside from that, DCPS would certainly not be better off if it lost most of its high performing students. Then all schools would be low performing.[/quote]

Right, no they wouldn't be better off.  No way. Young high SES families are serious agents of change in DC.  They don't just support schools, they do all kinds of things to help make the city a better place. This mother spent several long years lobbying DDOT to get the horribly battered sidewalks on our street changed out (we weren't even on an 10-year paving schedule), and succeeded.  According to DDOT engineers, nobody had pushed for new sidewalks, or a radical reworking of the traffic flow at the profoundly dangerous intersection around the corner, until gentrifiers appeared on the scene.  [/quote]

Exactly.  Remember how much of a shithole DC was (in fact, DCPS schools didn't even have toilet paper) when Mayor Marion Crackhead and his crooked cronies ran things?![/quote]

We just bought toilet paper for our school during a "paddle raise." NWDC school. [/quote]

Remember that because this year DC schools plan to spend another $20 million on an 'esteem' initiative for 'boys of color.'  No doubt it will pay for more consultants. 
 But you have to buy your school's toilet paper.[/quote]

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