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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The above discussion is an advertisement for choice sets or some sort of set aside for lower SES kids who want to attend schools with this type of fund raising capacity. [/quote]

The DME would say so. However, to the more acute observers, choice set would mean that the high SES parents, responsible for the organization and contribution to the PTAs, would just flee the DCPS system, and go do the same job elsewhere (provates, MoCo, etc...). Not a good at all outcome for DCPS.[/quote]

I'm sorry, but that is just not my EOTP experience. People here work hard at schools that are really struggling. I go to a 99% FARMs school with an active PTA of mainly high SES people. The lower-income families volunteer in other capacities, many by doing so in their kids' and grandkids' rooms. Maybe wotp people would bail, but I have a hard time believing that when you would be assigned to one of three excellent schools. [/quote]

so in a school of 300 kids there are three high SES PTA parents? you cannot compare the situation of high SES parents who chose to buy in an up and coming area with struggling schools with same parents who bought in more expensive areas counting on the local school.  these people ( and I am one of them)  would not be happy to drive p their kids farther away to schools that are doing less well and would not spend $$ and a lot of time in fundraising. they will leave DCPS altogether, there wil be less high SES parents in DCPS and I am not sure who is going to gain [/quote]

No, a 99% FARMs school is a community eligibility school, and no one knows how many FARMs families there are because the data are not collected. Powell, eg, is 99% FARMs and is becoming more gentrified each year.[/quote]

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