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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "other people can't have nice things" have taken their arguments to a whole new level here. We're talking about private, voluntary contributions. Contributions that have managed to keep the schools afloat while DCPS let them languish and rot. Contributions that have salvaged a semblance of a passable eduction despite DCPS. Contributions that have freed tremendous resources for other schools.

And this is what you want to prevent? You are truly a ideological idiot. [/quote]

NP here.  No one faults parents for fundraising.  But what's unfair is holding schools, along with their teachers and students, to the same standards as those with significant funding boosts and then judging those communities as not valuing education.

Or concluding that low-income kids can't do well because their parents "aren't involved."

The extra funds provided by PTAs is not being protested.  It's the ignorance perpetuated on this forum that schools without those funds just can't be helped.

And it's not just parents who believe this.  It's fairly obvious that the DME proposals are betting on income distribution to raise struggling schools. I don't disagree that it will help, I'm just tired of the assumption that high SES kids are smarter and that their parents care more.

There's a lot of talk here about "students who aren't prepared" and healthy doses of judgement for their parents, but no consideration for the fact that their school may be without a library, or science equipment, or basic school supplies.  These are things that should be in every PUBLIC school, not just those schools with wealthy parents.

You can sit on a high horse (and it's galling how many do) and say if low income parents cared, they would roll up their sleeves and organize for fundraising.  But just who would they go to in a community where everyone is just trying to pay the rent?

Education is supposed to be the socioeconomic equalizer; instead, it's the source of a deepening divide.[/quote]

What the reformers running DCPS say is poor kids CAN do well, despite their parents lack of involvement, as long as they have an effective teacher.  What sane people say is that parent involvement makes a huge difference in kids' ability to thrive and learn.    And you may be tired about assumptions about high SES kids, but they are factual.  You're right that every public school should have basic supplies and equipment,  and if some don't -- look to the school administrators who supposedly care deeply about all children.  It's their job to do that;  it's not the job of other kids' parents.[/quote]

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