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Wealthy parents are recognized as "pioneers", "friends of public education","school reformers", and "parent organization leaders".[b] But many are really attention seekers using public education  to save money and to generate their own personal relevance.[/b]  Listservs are abundant at these schools coupled with a clear understanding that a large portion of the school's parents may not have regular internet or technology

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A lot of what you said was interesting but for me it was almost negated by the above. Suggesting that people USE public education to SAVE money is very ugly to read. Do you think well off people should just always pay for private? Can you imagine the state of public schools if everyone who could afford private went private? This is a major problem of charter schools because more educated parents often invest more efforts in selecting a charter leaving the public schools struggling with lack of parental involvement, poverty, behavior issues, etc. it sounds like you charter school is not treating the entire student body equally. That is a big problem and I would be upset too. But you have to understand that charter schools are a breeding ground for a variety of corruption and dishonesty. Recall the recent Washington post story exposing the fact that the DC charters expel a tremendous amount of students forcing those kids back to the public schools. As soon as charters get their money they can start weeding out the undesirables.[/quote]

The fact that OP actually called out the other parents as attention seekers is ridiculous.  She herself has confused a lack of support for her personal endeavors with a lack of support for her children.  She's doing a disservice to other middle-class, and lower SES families with her diatribe here.  She's setting them up to walk into schools in the fall with a false sense of discrimination from the outset. Worse, she's doing her children a disservice by walking around with this imagined discrimination floating over her head.  She needs to get over it or as pp said, move to the burbs already. [/quote]

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