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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The stratification is already there because not all kids are able to attend. The fundraising is only covering a third of the students' costs this year. [/quote]

Please get your facts straight - I have always understood the school to commit 100% to making sure all students who want to go can go.  So whatever fundraising has happened so far, my understanding always was - and the school's been clear I feel - that all kids who want to go will go.

The stratification comes in with regard to parents attending too.  Most of us (our family included) wouldn't feel comfortable sending our 5th grader on their own, even with chaperones.  So the stratification comes in with regard to parents who don't have the money/haven't raised the money to also send a parent, which the school understandably won't pay for.[/quote]

Man, charters are such a private, segregated school system. I thought the hurdles and logistics to even apply and attend an OOB/charter school was enough to discourage low-SES families, but this.takes.the.cake.  Talk about tale of two cities.

Out of curiosity, for those students on free and reduced lunches, the school would pony up the entire cost of the trip for the student? Or was it on them to peddle fundraising schlock in their low-income neighborhood  :roll: [/quote]

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