Public schools in rich neighbourhoods filled with rich kids raise more money from parents than public schools in poor neighbourhoods filled with poor kids. Were not just talking about an extra $100 dollars we are talking about up to $1000 more per student. Basically if you live in a better neighbourhood and you are rich you will get a better education than a poor student in a bad neighbourhood. People want to ban parental donations to the schools and they want the government to fund all schools to a level where donations wouldn't be needed. The top ten fundraisers got an average of 8.75 out of 10 on the Frasier Institute's test and the bottom ten fundraisers scored an average of 5.3 rating.
Although there is no straight-line correlation between fundraising and the education kids are getting. The most any of the top ten scorers fundraised was $234.86, 73 schools that had lower test scores raised more than that. Also one of the top ten schools was among the bottom ten worst fundraisers.
I do agree with Chris Selley, everyone deserves to have an equal education. They should ban parental donations to public schools and maybe raise taxes a little so that the government can fund the schools so that donations wouldn't be necessary. Or they could also just pool all parental donations so that every school gets an equal amount of money to fund it so nobody gets a higher education than the other person.
Every school should have the Pathways to Education program so that all the students end up going to high school and not quitting because they are getting bad marks in a poor funded school. People debate the importance of social equalities but nobody denies the importance of education, the time is now to stand up and change the ways of the school board so that every school is equally funded and nobody ends up with a bad education.
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