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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny. I don't agree fully with the CAP study, but I disagree on how each came off.  I thought the former PTA president was pretty inarticulate actually, and missed a lot of opportunities to make his points.  The point about the wrong PTA fundraising number was completely missed.  If you were not already in the know, you wouldn't have guessed it was an issue, and the Washington Post story would still be your reference point (if you read that).  It still came off like the money that Janney's PTA raises is a big deal for the achievement gap, rather than several percentage points of the school's total budget.  If you didn't know any better, you likely came away thinking that "taxing" wealthy PTA in DC is a good idea, because the money that they raise is an unfair advantage and it would help other PTAs a lot (despite being a drop in the bucket for a nearly $1 billion DCPS budget).  It was a missed opportunity for Janney.[/quote]

What you fail to understand is that "equity does not lead to equitable outcomes," as stated by the CAP woman.  Only by re-distributing money so that the less well-off get more can you hope to even begin correcting the structural injustices in our society that begin at birth.  This is why the former Janney PTA president suggested locating a "sister school" in which to share the contributed money.  He and the CAP woman seemed to agree it would be a fine idea.[/quote]

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