Like a good bureaucracy, PPS talks about equity while continually upholding inequitable practices. Jefferson is losing roughly 25% of their teaching positions in this year’s cuts. PPS says it’s because of enrollment. Every construction delay comes with increased costs and decreased enrollment. Enrollment is also low because PPS continues not to return Jefferson to being a neighborhood school. Not treating Jefferson as a neighborhood school enables imbalance in demographics across PPS schools, reduced enrollment at Jefferson, and overcrowding at Grant and other surrounding schools. Why don’t more Grant families cry out against the overcrowding from the Jefferson neighborhood? Why doesn’t PPS and their supposed concern for equity turn Jefferson back into a neighborhood school, balancing enrollment, and creating equitable opportunities for students at Jefferson (which is majority black) by retaining more staff and thereby offering the kinds of programs the majority white schools offer? Why? Well… Maybe PPS isn’t so interested in equity after all.