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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally fine in my book.  All the virtue signaling here makes me barf. OP, just keep it to yourself if you want to help a mom out trying to get the kids into a better public school funded by the same pot of money.  This is a tale as old as time. [/quote]

Seriously. So many people who claim to be so progressive and caring yet think it is perfectly fine for poor parents not to have access to better quality schools.

It reminds me of one of my favorite books which I first read at age 12, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, published in 1943. It is a semi-biographical novel set in Brooklyn between 1900-1920.

Francie, the narrator describes her elementary school: Three thousand children crowded into this ugly brutalizing school that had facilities for only one thousand. She has to share a desk made for one student. She thought she'd come home from school that first day knowing how to read and write. But all she came home with was a bloody nose gained by an older child slamming her head down on the stone rim of the water trough. The children have lice, the teachers aren't very good, but "FRANCIE liked school in spite of all the meanness, cruelty, and unhappiness."

Then one day she goes on a really long walk and sees really nice school. "Francie was out walking one Saturday in October and she chanced on an unfamiliar neighborhood. Here were no tenements or raucous shabby stores... She walked on further and came to a little old school. Its old bricks glowed garnet in the late afternoon sun. There was no fence around the school yard and the school grounds were grass and not cement". She takes her dad to see the school and tells him she really wants to go to a school like that. So her father finds a nearby house and copies down the address and he tells Francie,

"You know that what we are going to do is wrong?"
"Is it, Papa?" she replies

[b]"But it's a wrong to gain a bigger good."[/b]

"Like a white lie?"

"Like a lie that helps someone out. So you must make up for the wrong by being twice as good. You must
never be bad or absent or late. You must never do anything to make them send a letter home through the mails."

"I'll always, be good, Papa, if I can go to that school."

So she goes and find out how much better the school is because it isn't run down, the children aren't brutalized and so are much nicer to each other, the whole atmosphere is really pleasant so she willingly continues to walk 48 blocks each day.

How is it fair poor and middle class families are shut out of PUBLIC school pyramids that are so much better than the schools in their neighborhoods?[/quote]

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