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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]

I was a Lafayette parent, currently Deal and Wilson.  Sorry but I am not rich and many other families I know in the neighborhood are not rich.  I spend a crazy percentage of my take home pay on the mortgage on my crappy house, vacation in places that most would look down on (Ocean City), and my dc's don't have the trappings you would associate with rich kids.  There are certainly "rich" kids at those schools but it simply is not the case for all of us.   A good number are Government and non-profit workers with advanced degrees that value education and spread ourselves thin so we can be guaranteed a spot in one of these schools.  [/quote]

You people are funny. What does rich mean to you? Average houses cost over 1 million. My bad - not 2.5 million! You're comparing yourselves to private school folks up the road and thereby feel less rich. Maybe drive through Anacostia one day and see what it feels like. I know you don't want to be rich, but, relatively speaking and for DC you very much are.[/quote]

The implication of the post upthread was that the "rich kids" have the fancy renovated school.  The Lafayette community lived with a challenging (at best) school for many years and received no more special treatment than other school across the city, what they have in terms of structure is in fact typical for renovated schools across the city.  The renovation was not paid for by the PTA and it certainly was not the first in line when renovations started happening.[/quote]

There is a reason that me and my friends drive across town on weekends to let our kids play at the Lafayette playground(s). Literally nothing comparable on our side of the park.[/quote]

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