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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[b] unfair is holding schools, along with their teachers and students, to the same standards as those with significant funding boosts a[/b]nd 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]

actually the poster above complained about private fundaisers in schools, saying that it is not fair to schools in poor areas where parents cannot fundraise, as if the difference in edication at these schools was due to the lack of PTA money. also you say that it is not fair to hold schools at the same standards as schools that have "substantial funding boosts" . can you please explain? the example in the post below, if Murch and Payne had the same amount of students, Payne would get over $3millions more than Murch, based on 2015 (Payne gets less in total number because has less than half the students at Murch, but get substantilly more money per students). thus, Payne is the school with the funding boost, not Murch, even counting the PTA fuindraiser.  I am with you whan you say that all elementary schools should have a librarian, science equipment and whatever kids need to study (but this also means you may have to close some schools if only a fraction of kids are enrolled, you can keep open school  that have 1/4 of the students they could serve).  but 
saying that schools that are doing well are doign well because they have a boost in funding does not describe reality. schools in poor area do not miss the PTA fundraising, they miss a better net of social services that protect and support very fragile children, and maybe also a better way to spend the money that they already get. if kids do not go to school, are hungry, are homeless, have disfunctional abusive parents, it is not very easy for the school to do its work. we need some type of specific intervention of these type of situations.  [/quote]

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