SUMMARY

Public school full of rich kids raise more money from parents the public schools full of poor kids.
For example this week fundraising among the city's public schools were up to $500and even $1000 per student during 2008-09 school, year. Like the school in Rosedale is just better than the one in Malvern. Among TDSB schools ranked by the Fraser Institute based on standardized test scores, the top 10 fundraisers brought in $515 per students and got an average 8.75 out of 10 rating. The bottom 10fundraisere brought in$17 per students , and averaged a 5.3 rating .Or ,looking at it the other way: The top 10 TDSB schools in the Fraser Institute rankings all ranked 10 or 9.9 raised an average rating of $164.45 per student.The bottom 10, with an average of 2.3 , brought in an average of $58.64.The most any of them raised was $234.86 per student 73 schools raised more than that .And one of the 10-out-of10 schools was among the bottom-10 TDSB fundraisers .Great teachers are priceless,and donations mostly worthless without them.

Officially, the provincial curriculum should be available to all students without a single extra dime being paid. but then there is  this " While no student should Be excluded from participating in any school activity or event based on the ability to pay ,some activities or events may require some recovery of the cost for participation."
This is a certainly a good opportunity to consider the current state of our future public education.Fundraising should be spent on the kids who are worst off. Bring Nelson Mandela Park middle schools $16-per-student fundraising in line with Whitney Junior Public school $1026 wont address the bed rock reasons the former is rakes 2.0 by the Fraser Institute and the latter8.6.  People have always debated the importance of social inequalities, but nobody denies the importance of education .