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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What this library article and the recent report on at-risk funds and where they were distributed so plainly and painfully point out is the incredible disparity within the DCPS system.  It is outrageous.  How can the administration allow the rich schools to continue to have it all while schools in lower SES have so much less?  If some schools have a librarian, and some do not, then why can't these staff be shared-- giving everyone a part time librarian?
Each school should be given an equal chance.
If Lafayette has 28,000 books, why shouldn't some of those books be redistributed to schools in need?[/quote]

DCPS is allowing the disparity because they are not providing the basics needed for ANY of its schools. Some schools have decent libraries because Target came in and redid the space. Some schools have decent libraries because parents and communities have donated to support them for decades. And some schools just don't have decent libraries. The inequity is caused because DC isn't paying for any of it. We need to stop berating individual schools for finding a way to provide something decent -- in spite of DCPS -- and start demanding that DCPS provide the basics. We need to consider how DCPS is actually spending money if the city can't fund the basics.[/quote]

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