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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These lieeeeesss. 
You may pay for essentials, like wipes however DCPS does give each school that just not enough. So in turn that IS a luxury. PTA will fund teachers that weren’t in the budget, paras, etc. 
They fund those extras that can truly help make a school great. I call them extras but really every school deserves it.

One simple look at an LSAT budget can tell you what a great PTA can fund. I work at a title 1 school and I was thinking how nice it’d be to be a school that’s budget plan included ‘para funded by PTA or counselor funded by PTA’

That’s a wonderful resource.

I can’t blame NW PTAs fully for anything, however I can certainly say that equity is always a problem and really the focus needs to be the overall budget. The US has too long not invested in public schools. That’s something we should all be agreeing on.

We’ve already acknowledged these disparities but we haven’t done enough to help the city as a whole. Everyone only thinks about their neighborhood.

How about less ME and more WE?

-DCPS Teacher and Mom  [/quote]

That is exactly the problem with the article though. It literally suggest there was some vote to help the city as a whole and Janney and Mann voted "no" and chose me over we. This is completely false, obviously, and it leads to ridiculous side arguments that prevent people from focusing on the real problems with education in the city. It puts the focus on "rich DCPS parents" -- as if that is some huge population of troublemakers -- and not on the real problems. Seriously, if you tried to argue to the rest of the country that the real problems in DC education are caused by wealthy people who send their kids to DC public school, you'd be laughed out of the room.[/quote]

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