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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are committed to public school, what's wrong with working to improve your local schools from the moment you move into a neighborhood instead of waiting to you face the prospect of inadequate schools for YOUR child and trying to buy your way into a school that OTHERS have invested time and effort into building for many years.  I'm shocked that citizens allow their own schools to deteriorate (despite investment of public funds that equal or exceed private school tuition) and then try to parachute their DC into good schools.  We should demand more of our public schools.  They are wasting our money and no one seems to care so long as they can find a way to help their DC escape.[/quote]

OK, I'm a big supporter of public schools, but this is just naive and silly. Nothwithstanding your expressions of "shock." Do you actually have a kid in a public school, like me? If so, you must realize that one family working FT from their DC's birth isn't going to revolutionize a really bad school by the time DC hits K. Why not? Because the administrators are appointed from on high; because the school may be locked into a district-wide curriculum; because other families may be uninterested in working for change. And it's always the high-SES districts that have the best schools, and it's always the families that can't afford a house in, for example, Bethesda, who are trying to buy their way into Bethesda schools. [/quote]

Within a school district, the amount spent per student is NOT greater in the high -SES neighborhoods than the lower SES neighborhoods.  There are various reasons why better schools are in high-SES neighborhoods, but public spending is not a reason.  A big factor is what residents demand  and expect.  You are correct that one person cannot change things in one year, but that's true of much in society.  You have to start somewhere and if you wait until your child is school age and then give up once you've found a way out for your kid nothing will ever change.  We must demand more for all children, not just our own.  Public school systems have become corrupt and people aren't complaining about it except during that limited time when it impacts them directly.  No accountability = corruption. [/quote]

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