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When your privilege conflicts with your values about educational equity

My daughter goes to a private school because the public ones here are underfunded and I know I am part of the problem but I cannot sacrifice her future for my principles.

Juana
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She faces the tension between individual responsibility to her child and collective responsibility to society.

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