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"Poor kids do not need your gently used coats.  That is not what is going to address the education gap.  That you can't see this speaks volumes.""

They don't?   Then why is it that the social worker from a Title 1 school asked our Ward 3 school for this cold weather gear in specific sizes for kids who kept coming to school with no coats in freezing weather?   That you can't see this also speaks volumes.

The reason that Mark Zuckerberg's huge donation to the Newark schools didn't help much there is that throwing money at a Title 1 school doesn't magically fix the education gap.

Money for the schools does help, though, and that is why per pupil poor schools receive so much federal and other support.   I am all for that, and I know that our voluntary donation to our PTA allows DCPS to shift even more resources to the kids in Title 1 schools.   It's a voluntary tax, and there already in effect is a pooling of the resources.

Frankly, I also already donate extra to make up for the parents in my own Ward 3 school (which is in the Post story) who are lower or middle income.   We do have them, you know.   Plus to make up for the parents who could give more, but don't.

If you want to give the poor schools in DC more money, raise taxes.   The Council and Mayor Bowser are supposedly in the process of lowering them!!!!

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