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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think services follow white children in DC. They dont need them and the extras are (in my opinion correctly) directed elsewhere. Look at all the shiny new under-enrolled schools and per pupil spending outide of ward 3.

Extras at w3 schools come from parents not the city. [/quote]

What hit me was the studies of what was available at the middle school level between schools East of the River and at Deal. They are huge.  I have had children attend a 90%  minority/ 70% Farm school and one that is 50% minority/20 % farm.  What was available at each school was huge.  The extras that go to poor schools are an extra school pychologist or new coats and backpacks.  It is not the extra computer lab or IPADs or robotics programs.   You cannot even imagine unless you have lived it the difference.  I don't know that I would have believed how different the benefits are withou the experience

As to the point that parents provide the benefits you are right, and then they use it as a tax break.  Well off parents use real estate prices to segregate SES, they use their money to provide extras and [b]then use both of those factors to decrease the general taxation they would have paid to help the general treasury that might have helped poorer kids. [/b][/quote]

What,, do you think that DC taxes are too low?  Do you have any idea what many people in this town pay in income, property, sales and other fees to Dysfunctional City?  That DC, all-in, is one of the most high taxed jurisdictions in the whole country?  That DCPS already spends per pupil a lot of money?  Th[b]at people watch as their taxes are spent on things like multi-million dollar sweetheart contracts to people like Jeffrey Thompson?  Or stolen outright by council members like Harry Thomas?  Or wasted like Vincent Orange's $350K party fund for an emancipation day concert the other day?  People contribute and, yes, volunteer many hours to raise money for their kids' schools because despite all the tax money, [/b]DCPS has been unable regularly to fund things like enrichment programs, science teachers, music teachers, full-time liibrarians and, until recently, even playgrounds.

The problem in DCPS is not money.  It is how it is spent and other management issues.  It is too much of a focus on feel-good goals like diversity, esteem and egalitarianism, rather than on making rigorous, quality schools in every neighborhood of our city.[/quote]

These are red herrings.  If you have lived in any other major city you would know that corruption runs deep in politics.  The only difference is that DC has the WAPO and DC is heavily monitored.  [/quote]

No way. I've lived in Boston, NYC and Chicago and DC wins the corruption contest, hands down.[/quote]

Not against Chicago.  Wrong.[/quote]

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