Involuntary Donations From Poor Kids

I’ve read quite a few online comments encouraging wealthier parents to make donations to their school foundations to offset PPS proposed budget cuts at some of the better high schools. 

I wonder how many of those parents will be donating $6,821 over the next four years.  That’s what Marshall students could be donating over a four year period if the school closes. 

As things stand, students would be traveling the equivalent of the distance from Portland to Japan, or Peru or Russia.  A conservative estimate of the time that would be spent on a bus is 812 hours (70 minutes per day) times Oregon’s minimum wage ($8.40) = $6,821. 

That’s a large donation from a population where 72.7% of the families are living in poverty.