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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with OP.

I remember reading an article from 2012 about how French President Hollande had proposed banning homework in an effort to level the playing field.  He said homework favors the wealthy because they have parents with the time and energy to help them with their homework.  I guess his idea was that, instead of allowing some kids to benefit from homework, it's better to bring all kids down to a lower level (since equality is the #1 goal).

[b]I don't get why people would oppose having parents help a school fund staff positions.[/b]  Since it doesn't hurt your school (but only helps the other school), it seems kind of petty to oppose it.

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Really? You don't understand why people might be upset if School A gets an extra art teacher/reading specialist/media person because School A has a lot of rich parents, but School B does not get an extra art teacher/reading specialist/media person because School B does not have a lot of rich parents?[/quote]

PP here.  The reason I don't understand it is that it does not hurt your child and frees up money in the budget to help other schools. [/quote]

The system OP proposes sounds good on paper, but in practice it works out like this:  Rich parents fund extras for their children's schools; they then start complaining about the amount of taxes they pay that is used by the County and State to fund not only their children's school but all the schools; they lobby for the taxes to be lowered; as the taxes are lowered the funding from the County and State is also reduced; the funding to the rich schools and the poor schools may be reduced equally, but the rich parents can make up for the short fall; and the result is that the poorer school get worse while the rich school stay the same or get better. [/quote]

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