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Why not?  If MCPS has such a backlog, it is in everyone's interest to have things taken off the list in any way possible, moving any project behind Somerset higher on the list.  No one is helped at other schools and, in fact others are hurt, by refusing help where it is offered.

The real danger in this is that MCPS starts to expect wealthier schools to pay to fix their own problems, rather than allocating funds to those schools on par with other schools.[/quote]

If you want to be able to use your money to buy better facilities for your child's school, then you have to send your child to private school.

Please also refrain from explaining how it would actually benefit poor people if the public school system allowed you to altruistically use your money to buy better facilities for your child's public school.[/quote]

Rather than just telling me I shouldn't explain why it is better for everyone, why don't you actually refute what I said with a substantive response?  But let's give an example.

Say there are five open maintenance request and each one will take one month to fix.  Somerset is currently #3 on the list.  If Somerset gets completed with private funds, schools #4 and #5 get their maintenance request finished a month faster than they would otherwise.  If you had a kid in school #4, would you be happy if their windows got fixed a month earlier?[/quote]

One reason is because  when private money is used for specific projects, it's often at the expense of the system as a whole. This is a perfect example. If your child's building has a correctly-functioning HVAC system, opening  the windows worsens the performance of that system. By  paying to make the windows openable, you could be defeating, not supplementing, the air-handling capacities in the building. But you liked the idea and you had money so you got what you wanted and "feel more comfortable" with your child sitting near an open window, even though it is objectively bad for other people (and probably your child as well, if/when they  are in other parts of the building). [/quote]

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