or maybe the people with education and resources decide to volunteer and fix their own community?
if all of the greedy, self-interested, disengaged people decide to leave, how is that not an improvement?
The prototypical wealthy person is a small business owner or a well paid professional/executive. It's likely that they're very busy, and the prospect of them spending Wednesday afternoons volunteering at their schools is... unlikely.
>if all of the greedy, self-interested, disengaged people decide to leave, how is that not an improvement?
It's a huge problem if they leave and take their tax dollars with them.
Our PTA raised two orders of magnitude more money than the one four miles away in a poorer area. And the classrooms were filled with parents doing teacher gruntwork - and they also kept an eye on all the kids.
It's hard to overstate how much a good PTA (and good parents) contribute, at least at the elementary school level.