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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]

No, they shouldn't be allowed to do it if it would harm the overall system.  That's reasonable.  But for most desired fixes that wouldn't be the case, and I don't even know if that is the case at Somerset.

Assume opening the windows would have no adverse impact on the overall system and the only reason the windows aren't open is because they are broken and no one has gotten around to fixing them.  Who is better off by not allowing parents to help fix the broken windows?[/quote]

No, no. The assumption is that allowing affluent parents to pay to fix the windows at their child's public school would have no adverse impact on the overall public school system. Which is a false assumption.[/quote]

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