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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did it ever cross your mind that hiring some childcare to manage the DL would free up my time for this kind of advocacy?

Just join an advocacy group and stop hassling people.  All we want is an adequate education and 30 seconds of peace and quiet to do our jobs.  The jobs that fund the taxes and donations that pay for what you want.  See?[/quote]

This isn't about joining an advocacy group, it's about not checking out of your school and demanding your school does a good job.

Just a thought. I started this thread because I've been mulling in my head the answer to the question - how does getting my kids what they need hurt other kids. And this is how.

I'm not trying to make people do or don't do things, just to think about it. 
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And you think this is a new idea unique to DL? Come on.[/quote]

Agreed.  But accelerated and exacerbated.  The "regular" kids will get much less than usual and the "pod" kids will get much more.[/quote]

I just don't think letting my kids fall behind is any kind of solution.  The school system does not need even more kids who are below grade level.  There are lots of sacrifices and donations I would happily make, but I have to think the tradeoffs are worth it.[/quote]

I suppose, in my optimism, that I believe if parents in a school stuck together and made demands, kids wouldn't fall behind because we'd get something better. [b]It would cost the school more in time and treasure and innovation[/b], but they'd have  no choice if the influential parents, the ones currently joining pods, were making a stink alongside the non-influential ones. It's not the path of least resistance though.[/quote]

WTF?  "Time and treasure"?  Like they have some supply of money and extra staff time and they're just holding out on us?  Come on.  Influential parents ask for things all the time, and the school tells them no, all the time!  Because the school has a finite budget and most of the money is allocated to really obvious things already.  It seems like you've never actually been involved in a school.  It has a budget.  They can't just magically get more.  At a mostly high-income school parents might be able to put in $100,000 or $200,000 in addition to what they already raise, but it is a DROP IN THE BUCKET compared to the need that exists.  You might be able to get some "innovation", but going in there like an oblivious, inexperienced fool who thinks they have infinite money is going to make them not listen to you at all.[/quote]

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