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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op 
Pp has offered you a solution that is very parallel to what parents of kids in lower rates schools are told here all the time - just move. Just because it is not easy for you to do so does not mean it is not an alternative. Op also noted you could apply for a COSA if you believe the smaller class size is what is most important rather than the advantage that comes from having an overwhelmingly well off student body and parent group. These are both entirely reasonable suggestions.

It is not so much that I have a problem with your proposal of give $100k yo your school and the same to a fund (although I take pp's point that the same amount goes much less further when spread out across the general fund). It is that I think long term it will not work out this way. There was a thread last year suggesting some small amount of rich school PTA funds be shared with other schools given that some can raise obscene amounts of money and others struggle to pay for things like assemblies and field trip scholarships. On that long thread most from well off schools argued they should have to share nothing since the funds are voluntary. Forgive me if [b]I doubt that over time $100K would keep coming into the General fund. [/b]Even if it did it would lessen [b]the interest in he most politically connected areas to support broader funding for the schools since they could have bought their way out of the problem.[/b] [/quote]

The widening gap between rich and poor is problematic enough as it is.[/quote]

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