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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not secret what MV is trying to do.[/quote]

That's just what Donald Trump would say!!!

You conspiracy theorists are idiots. If the families don't pay then someone else has to. Should they foist that cost on other aftercare families? Are you suggesting the school should absorb the cost? I repeat, someone has to pay for the provider, staff, insurance, food, etc. Also, who is paying for the physical facilities? At DCPS it's DCPS. At charters it is the Charters. Which means that staff, security, lights, etc are all going to come out of someone's pockets. This isn't as simple as you are all making it out to be. And what scares me is that while inevitably some of the above posters are trolls, some of you actually believe this it's all just this easy.

The vast majority of DCUM posters have never run a business or managed anything larger than (maybe) a monthly budget. But even that seems a stretch for the level of oversimplification and useless talking points that fly so freely. Budgets and public administration require decision making and hard choices. I have no idea if MV or any other school runs a profit or loss after considering, admin and variable costs. But if they do run a profit and they decide to use those funds for field trips for the students, resources for classrooms, teacher training, teacher salaries, is that bad? Not everyone uses aftercare, but every kid uses school time. Maybe that's not the trade-off you would make. It's fair to question how those decisions are made or whether the right trade-offs and considerations are being made. But those are big boy and bog girl conversations that require nuance and thinking on a level that the lizard brain charter haters and conspiracy theorists cannot possibly bring to the table. If it makes you feel better to cast this as some sort of good vs evil thing then have at it. But if any of the non-trolls that are bringing that noise think your "contributions" to the discussion are going to help bring about change or that sitting in the cheap seats throwing oranges at people who step up and put some skin in the game is somehow going to reallocate resources, well then that's just sad.[/quote]

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