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This is ludicrous. I’m not sending my child to public school to help some neighborhood kids whose parents aren’t involved or don’t have the means to be. That is not my problem. My focus is MY child. [/quote]

If everyone had this view, all public schools would be mediocre [/quote]

True but where is the lie? I’m not the PP but the focus is definitely my kids.[/quote]

Is it not possible to focus on your kids and also care about the well-being of society?

After all, it’s important to remember that PG County schools are “bad” relative to other Maryland schools. At least half of them would put schools in most other states to shame. Studies have shown that parental income is the largest factor in determining academic achievement. So, sending your child to a PG school would hardly make a difference in their future.

The public schools in these other areas didn’t just automatically become good out of nowhere. They were also mediocre when they first started out. They achieved excellence after the families their invested in their community.

Someone should start an effort to improve the issues in PGCPS. Just start a Facebook group or something and add people with similar concerns to it. It’s your community, these are your schools, your taxes are paying for them. The best thing you can do for your children is to invest in the community they grow up in, as well as all the kids who are part of that community. That involves advocating for people less privileged than you.

This “f you, I got mine” mentality is the reason that people from disadvantaged backgrounds remain in the positions they’re in. It’s so easy to shrug it off as not being your issue, but remember, those kids want to go to school and learn to. Their parents want the same thing for their kids that you want for yours as well, and their families value education. Nobody should assume otherwise. There’s always the assumption that Black families don’t care value education and that Black kids don’t value it, when it’s actually that there are systematic barriers that prevent disadvantaged students from learning. Think about all those poor Black and Hispanic kids who had to sit in parking lots for WiFi to do their homework during the pandemic back when it first hit. Rich people dodging their publics only exacerbates these inequities even more.

Your kids need you, but other kids need you as well. You can focus on your kids first while also still showing concern for other kids, especially those who come from environments where they aren’t able to receive sufficient parental support. [/quote]

Excellent post! I agree 1000%. Robert Putnam has a book called Our Kids that is appropriate here. Racism has destroyed our sense of community to each other and the children especially. It takes a village to raise a child but in the DC metro area, the village is full of selfish, NIMBY adults that view children as someone else's problem, even though that child could might become the future doctor to save their lives when they are aging. Children are investments in all of our future. [/quote]

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