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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]!8:37 I agree with you 100%.  Public schools need active, engaged, smart, demanding parents in order to be pushed to be the best.  If parents simply opt out, you are, in fact weakening the public school system.  It is the reason Warren Buffet advocates doing away with private school (not something I agree with, but his point is well taken).  If everyone had to be in the public school system then, theoretically, those engaged parents would improve the system for all.[/quote]

So parents with kids at Whitman, Churchill et al. - What are they doing to improve public schools in the red zone? I know they have booster clubs that raise money for their own schools; do they do anything other than pay taxes in order to help red zone schools? How does someone sending their kid to Carderock help a kid at New Hampshire Estates? [/quote]

It's all one school system. So if the Potomac/Bethesda parents scream and yell about putting more money put into the capital improvement budget, then the schools with poor kids benefit from this as well. If the Potomac/Bethesda parents scream about cutting bus transportation to magnet programs, then poor kids in magnet programs benefit from this as well. It's not perfect, and the de facto segregation in MCPS is shameful. But it's still more involvement and effect than there would be if the Potomac/Bethesda kids were all in private school -- or in their own separate public (for people like them) schools.

Also some of the PTAs in schools where people have a lot of money partner with PTAs in schools where people have little money. Ideally (in my opinion) there would be more of this.[/quote]

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