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For example, Kojo asked her whether she thought the disparaties in PTA funding contributed to poor student performance.  She said yes they did because studies show that if more money was invested in poorly-performing schools, they would do better.  That wasn't the question.  No one doubts that many of these schools are underfunded.  But that doesn't necessarily mean that PTA funding of wealthier elementary schools hurts poor schools.  The question is also what are these PTAs funding in the first place.
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If wealthier parents couldn't prop up their schools by contributing to the PTA, don't you think that they might be more likely to agitate for improvement across the whole system? By allowing wealthier parents to do things to improve their situation, you lose their advocacy for improving the situation as a whole which is especially unfortunate because often it is the wealthier people who have the knowledge, time, and ability to successfully advocate for change.

By allowing the PTA funding, it increases the chances that there will be no more money invested in poorly performing schools, perpetuating the problems of underfunding.[/quote]

False dichotomy. That argument just does not apply in DC the way school budget and grants and donations are distributed here. Name one Title I school with 5 classes in a grade where every class is over 25 students? The bulk of WOTP PTA money is spent to alleviate that unusual burden (unusual for DC) and the associated problems of having a large school, which is not shared equally across the city.

If parents agitated (again or more) for improvements in the things that are problems in WOTP schools, they would be denied (again), because most of those things are only problems in the WOTP schools. [/quote]

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