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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the entire discussion a distraction.  Public education should be funded with public dollars, paid for by taxes on all citizens.  What people are proposing is effectively a tax, but on a narrow tax base -- PTA funds raised by a small subset of schools.  Why should those funds be taxed more than other funds?  We should be advocating for higher taxes (or a reallocation of spending) to support schools if we think we don't have enough resources. [/quote]

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DC already has the highest taxes in the country.  DCPS is the lowest performing district behind Mississippi.  (Note that DC charters and privates are not included.  Also, that upper NW DCPS elementaries are the district's saving grace.)  Raising taxes isn't going to help - it's going to further gut the middle class that is finally returning to the city.  WE HAVE THE MONEY.  We're not spending it well.  These are different issues.

Proof?  We're about to flush $200 million down Coolidge HS so that 300 10th grade students who can't read at an 8th grade level or do 5th grade math can fail to learn surrounded by infrastructure.

Why?  Because the menopausal set in upper ward 4 has sentimental feelings for the high school they once attended - despite it being a rail stop on the high-school-to-prison pipeline.  Even the former principal at Coolidge is a criminal.

We don't need to spend more.  We need to stop wasting what we spend.[/quote]

And this is why parents want to fund raise privately to a school PTA to direct dollars to activities that will fund worthwhile and needed activities in their school. Sadly, while I would be willing to pay higher property taxes for better public schools in theory, I don't trust the DC govt or DC school system to spend my dollars wisely (and don't think there's sufficient accountability- political or otherwise- around the funds.  See Duke Ellington, $$$ spent on renovating schools that have low enrollment, political reality that DC will never add another ES in upper NW although the schools are massive and bursting at the seams). [/quote]

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