1. Give some examples of the extravagant donations that have been made by families to schools in the Hillsborough school district.
2. What have these gifts enabled the school district to do? How might this give these students an advantage?
3. What would you infer the word "anomaly" in paragraph 5 means? How do you know?
4. How does the East Palo Alto district differ from the Hillsborough school district?
5. What would you infer the word "pernicious" in paragraph 8 means? How do you know?
6. What does it mean when the author states, "the policies that govern private giving to public schools seem perverse"?
7. According to the author, what can we do to improve the "upside-down system of charity"?
8. What is the author's claim? Hint: look towards the bottom of page 2 for help. Explain your reasoning using a minimum of two textual examples from this article as support.
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