Generous schools

[Anonymous]

Which schools or through Parent-Teacher association go way out of their way to provide necessary school supplies, coats, holiday gifts, school merch, clothes, food, toiletries etc.?

[Anonymous]

Stop trying to make the schools be the entire social structure. It's hard enough to be schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop trying to make the schools be the entire social structure. It's hard enough to be schools.

The MCPS scoldtroll is back. Any normal discussion or question gets shut down by the scoldtroll.

A lot of the schools do this. We have a title 1 mcps sister school that we're reading finds and supplies for. Maybe see what your pta offers

[Anonymous]

Viers Mill has a weekly free food market, coats, eyeglasses, and even a holiday shoppe where every child can pick a gift to give to a family member that will be wrapped for them. There’s an amazing amount of community support of the school- but it is very needed.

[Anonymous]

Waters Landing has a food market on a regular basis, which is incredible for the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Viers Mill has a weekly free food market, coats, eyeglasses, and even a holiday shoppe where every child can pick a gift to give to a family member that will be wrapped for them. There’s an amazing amount of community support of the school- but it is very needed.

Several schools have this. Which means the PTA of these and surrounding schools should focus on different things. Books for teacher classrooms, setting up volunteer tutoring programs or school clubs.

[Anonymous]

Heh. The PTA is almost nonexistent in a lot of schools, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Flora Singer Elementary.

[Anonymous]

I'm not on the east coast, so maybe I don't count, but literally every single public school I've ever known in the Midwest does this.

[Anonymous]

True of Midwest schools that are capable to support, it's holiday time all school year long.

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of MCPS schools do this. I know ours do in the RM cluster.

[Anonymous]

Any school that is designated a Community School by MSPS does this. Most Title 1 schools are community schools and there are a bunch of Community Schools that are not Title 1.

[Anonymous]

Clopper Mill ES in Germantown is a community school (also Title 1) and provides a ton of resources to families. We have a small but mighty PTA that plans monthly free family activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of MCPS schools do this. I know ours do in the RM cluster.

+1 The Food Pantry Drive wishlist was fulfilled in like a couple of hours. I clicked on Amazon wish list to see what they needed, went to work, and then 3 hours later, I checked back, and the entire list was fulfilled. I was impressed by the RM community.

[Anonymous]

I think most of the Elem schools do. My kid was at Burtonsville Elem and they did.
Not sure about our MS