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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people who seem opposed to a PTA raising money for nice, even extravagant, features for their school, what would you prefer those parents do instead? Send their kid (and all of their financial resources) to private school? Send their kid to public but not give money to the school? What does that help? It’s obviously well-off parents that fund this sort of project, but it’s not like only the rich kids in the school benefit from any enrichments. It makes the school better for all the kids that go there.

(This is setting aside the question of whether these sorts of improvements should now be relocated, and at whose expense. Just seems like some people object to the idea of the lab in the first place.)[/quote]

How about give some money to the school’s with 70% poverty. Where kids are food insecure and don’t have coats. Just a thought.[/quote]

Well, if you are going to redistribute my PTA donations, I simply won't donate as much.  [b]Title 1 schools do get lots of monetary advantages over UMC schools, they get extra teachers, programs, etc...  They may not have fancy trinkets, but those programs are well funded already.  The differences between UMC public schools and ED public schools is not really about the money, it is more cultural and parent education.[/quote][/b]

Incorrect on every count. Title 1 funds are extremely limited in their use, and barely make a dent in inequities. They pay for extra teachers, and possibly one literacy event per year. That's it. Not after school programs or enrichment, not school supplies (which many teacher wind up paying for out of pocket), not field trips, not technology, not even classroom libraries. And they don't pay for the winter coats, or boots, or the emergency food pantry that many high poverty schools need just to meet the basic needs of the kids who face every single impediment to education that could possibly exist.

I don't care about a lab. Honestly, from what I hear it sounds like, while well-intended, a very large waste of good money and space. I think the money could've been better spent, even within ASFS's own community. And I think neither recreating nor maintaining the lab is a prudent use of taxpayer funds or limited internal space.  [/quote]

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