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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a crazy idea - properly resource all of the schools, including academic offerings, facilities, supports, etc.  so parents aren't playing Hunger games over available "good" schools.  [b]Everyone knows the affluent schools get more system support in addition to self-funding whatever else they want to have a "public plus" school[/b].[/quote]

It wouldn't matter. Even if the schools had the exact same buildings, courses, class sizes, extracurriculars, and quality of teachers, a classroom of 20 kids where 18 are poor, most have single parents, some are homeless or in foster care, they live in violent neighborhoods, many parents have less education is going to be different from a classroom of 20 kids where 18 have two-parent households without violence, both parents graduated from college, they can afford to take vacations and do extra classes and tutoring, family can help with homework. [/quote]

What on earth do you mean by this? The affluent schools actually get less in hard resources due to the fact that they aren't getting the extra $$ for Title I.  (I'm not arguing that they should be getting more, but this is just a fact.).  All the schools are underfunded- the Janneys/Lafayettes AND the underperforming schools.  This is not the issue.[/quote]

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