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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you’re understanding of inequality is lacking.  The inequality is not because of PTA funding.  Sure PTA funding helps with some more resources but you take PTA fundraising out of the picture and you still would get inequality.  [/quote]

Really?! Because I don’t hear about Janet parents doing mold and rat abatement. There is a funding problem![/quote]

Mold and rats are problems all over DC.[/quote]

OK I'm sorry, have you been to Lafayette campus? It's a palace with a massive park. It's got a digital sign. I went there and gasped (from EOTP, clearly). Not sure if it's the PTA, but please, understand what you have is NOT typical. Also understand that YES the kids who attend those schools are RICH. Just be ok with being RICH people, when your house is worth 2.5 million (oh, right, you're just upper middle class...get a grip on reality). [/quote]

Not a Lafayette parent but up until 3 years ago Lafayette had not been renovated in many decades, it was one of the last WOTP schools to be modernized.  It is serving I think almost 800 kids.  I would guess that very few if any of the houses of students are worth 2.5 Million.  Over 1 Million, sure, but 2.5, that is private school territory.  Are they poor, absolutely not, not even close.  But you should get a grip on reality.
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Almost 900 kids. 4 Short years ago it didn't have any classroom walls, had almost no control over heat and noise and rats and mice were a significant issue. It hadn't been touched since the mid 1970s. Save your outrage. [/quote]

Yes, if it makes sense for DCPS to invest in the physical plant of any school, it should be the largest elementary school in the entire system (900+ kids). Apparently, it is already bursting at the seams.

Someone else can make a list of all the renovated DCPS schools that have declining enrollment and/or are failing. [/quote]

I don't know if they are declining/failing, but the school modernization project is ongoing, and lots of schools outside NW have or are in the process of getting full modernizations and/or new buildings.  Boone (formerly Orr) just got a new building.  Harris is getting a modernization and a new cafeteria and gym.  Houston is getting a modernization that will add 30,000 square feet.  Kimball is getting an almost entirely new building.  And plenty of other non-WOTP schools have already been updated or rebuilt.  DCPS and DGS have a formula to determine how schools are prioritized that includes how many other schools in that ward have already been modernized, the percentage of at-risk/ELL/SPED students, student demand and neighborhood population, and the condition of the building, and then they factor in swing space availability, cost, and district priorities (ex: prioritizing middle schools).  They intentionally spread the renovations around all eight wards--WTOP schools do not get any kind of special priority, and it has nothing to do with PTA/HSA fundraising.   [/quote]

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