What do you think? Car line-cutting auction?

[Anonymous]

The first carpool spot went for $10,000 at an auction I attended at Beauvoir some years back...

[Anonymous]

Just when I thought I'd heard everything... I bet some schools refuse to engage in this nonsense. To make money, schools are inconveniencing other parents on a regular basis? There are other ways to raise money!

[Anonymous]

I don't mind so much about parents being inconvenienced.

But I imagine my little boy waiting to be picked up and then seeing his classmate pulled out because his parents paid for him to get to leave first. When I view this through the eyes of my child, I do not like it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first carpool spot went for $10,000 at an auction I attended at Beauvoir some years back...

Holy crap!! I bet you could hire a town car to pick up DC every afternoon for that price if you really couldn't wait in line.

[Anonymous]

Must make the financial aid parents in particular feel great to have that rubbed in their faces everyday... [/sarc]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must make the financial aid parents in particular feel great to have that rubbed in their faces everyday... [/sarc]

Actually, I think that spot pays for the tuition for the kid of the mom at the back of the line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first carpool spot went for $10,000 at an auction I attended at Beauvoir some years back...

Holy crap!! I bet you could hire a town car to pick up DC every afternoon for that price if you really couldn't wait in line.

Please. The money goes back to the school to provide essential staff and school funds. Our school' auction pays for teachers' healthcare. I gladly give back as much as I can in both money and time. You all just need someone/thing to gossip about b/c you are green with envy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first carpool spot went for $10,000 at an auction I attended at Beauvoir some years back...

Holy crap!! I bet you could hire a town car to pick up DC every afternoon for that price if you really couldn't wait in line.

Please. The money goes back to the school to provide essential staff and school funds. Our school' auction pays for teachers' healthcare. I gladly give back as much as I can in both money and time. You all just need someone/thing to gossip about b/c you are green with envy.

Exactly. Not to mention the fact that everyone complaining that their kids will see people who pay the money getting special privileges seem to forget this is for private schools. Which is a privilege in itself. If these parents really felt that way they wouldn't even be sending their kids to private school. It would be like parents of public school children saying it's not fair their kids have to see other kids go to private school because their parents are willing to pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Exactly. Not to mention the fact that everyone complaining that their kids will see people who pay the money getting special privileges seem to forget this is for private schools. Which is a privilege in itself. If these parents really felt that way they wouldn't even be sending their kids to private school. It would be like parents of public school children saying it's not fair their kids have to see other kids go to private school because their parents are willing to pay.

You are totally right. Let's extend your conclusion...

If it's OK for the wealthiest parents to have special privileges, like cutting in line - because it's a private school, after all, a privilege - then I think we should also apply that to race and to beauty. The most beautiful in life get special consideration, so why not let the most beautiful cut the car line too? And, since whites often get preferential treatment in life over non-whites in the US, then we should form our car line with whites at the front. Right?

These are great lessons to teach our children. Surprising how so many here don't see anything wrong with this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Please. The money goes back to the school to provide essential staff and school funds. Our school' auction pays for teachers' healthcare. I gladly give back as much as I can in both money and time. You all just need someone/thing to gossip about b/c you are green with envy.

Yes, we're all jealous and envious of you, sweetie. We all wish we could be you... yawn.

You are confusing the action that the OP didn't like (cutting in line, every day) with its goal (fundraising).

That folks don't like the line-cutting has nothing to do with their willingness to contribute, nor does complaining about it suggest they are envious of you. [That you would say something like that is something you may want to discuss with your therapist.]

There are other ways to get parents to make contributions to teachers healthcare and otherwise boost their millions in endowments without having to resort to these sorts of auctions for a few thousand dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Exactly. Not to mention the fact that everyone complaining that their kids will see people who pay the money getting special privileges seem to forget this is for private schools. Which is a privilege in itself. If these parents really felt that way they wouldn't even be sending their kids to private school. It would be like parents of public school children saying it's not fair their kids have to see other kids go to private school because their parents are willing to pay.

You are totally right. Let's extend your conclusion...

If it's OK for the wealthiest parents to have special privileges, like cutting in line - because it's a private school, after all, a privilege - then I think we should also apply that to race and to beauty. The most beautiful in life get special consideration, so why not let the most beautiful cut the car line too? And, since whites often get preferential treatment in life over non-whites in the US, then we should form our car line with whites at the front. Right?

These are great lessons to teach our children. Surprising how so many here don't see anything wrong with this...

False. Not even close to the same things. Money buys you things. Period. But it's not just that these parents have money, that's what they chose to spend some on, probably with the thought that it helps their kids school and it's convenient. Beauty is subjective and I don't even want to get into your race example. Neither fit what's being discussed here. Surely you know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Exactly. Not to mention the fact that everyone complaining that their kids will see people who pay the money getting special privileges seem to forget this is for private schools. Which is a privilege in itself. If these parents really felt that way they wouldn't even be sending their kids to private school. It would be like parents of public school children saying it's not fair their kids have to see other kids go to private school because their parents are willing to pay.

You are totally right. Let's extend your conclusion...

If it's OK for the wealthiest parents to have special privileges, like cutting in line - because it's a private school, after all, a privilege - then I think we should also apply that to race and to beauty. The most beautiful in life get special consideration, so why not let the most beautiful cut the car line too? And, since whites often get preferential treatment in life over non-whites in the US, then we should form our car line with whites at the front. Right?

These are great lessons to teach our children. Surprising how so many here don't see anything wrong with this...

False. Not even close to the same things. Money buys you things. Period. But it's not just that these parents have money, that's what they chose to spend some on, probably with the thought that it helps their kids school and it's convenient. Beauty is subjective and I don't even want to get into your race example. Neither fit what's being discussed here. Surely you know that.

Right back at ya' - FALSE. Beauty is not that subjective and frankly you must be as ugly as the posters you are basically accusing of being "poor" and "jealous", aka those who are appalled by this item being auctioned off. And, most privates school auctions do benefit the tuition assistance fund, not the discretionary pot that pays teacher's salaries and the operating costs of the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Exactly. Not to mention the fact that everyone complaining that their kids will see people who pay the money getting special privileges seem to forget this is for private schools. Which is a privilege in itself. If these parents really felt that way they wouldn't even be sending their kids to private school. It would be like parents of public school children saying it's not fair their kids have to see other kids go to private school because their parents are willing to pay.

You are totally right. Let's extend your conclusion...

If it's OK for the wealthiest parents to have special privileges, like cutting in line - because it's a private school, after all, a privilege - then I think we should also apply that to race and to beauty. The most beautiful in life get special consideration, so why not let the most beautiful cut the car line too? And, since whites often get preferential treatment in life over non-whites in the US, then we should form our car line with whites at the front. Right?

These are great lessons to teach our children. Surprising how so many here don't see anything wrong with this...

False. Not even close to the same things. Money buys you things. Period. But it's not just that these parents have money, that's what they chose to spend some on, probably with the thought that it helps their kids school and it's convenient. Beauty is subjective and I don't even want to get into your race example. Neither fit what's being discussed here. Surely you know that.

Right back at ya' - FALSE. Beauty is not that subjective and frankly you must be as ugly as the posters you are basically accusing of being "poor" and "jealous", aka those who are appalled by this item being auctioned off. And, most privates school auctions do benefit the tuition assistance fund, not the discretionary pot that pays teacher's salaries and the operating costs of the school.

Huh? Beauty isn't subjective? You must have me confused with someone else cause I never accused anyone of being poor or jealous. I wasn't even thinking anything like that. And you call me ugly. Ok, whatever.

[Anonymous]

Money buys you things. Period. But it's not just that these parents have money, that's what they chose to spend some on, probably with the thought that it helps their kids school and it's convenient.

Rich and envy-inducing folks, you are missing the point. The school should not be in the businesses of conferring this bad-example "privilege." If some asshole, of his own volition, wants to jump the carpool line and park on the crosswalk and block a stop sign to get his kid into school 4 minutes sooner* ... well, he's just the douchebag we all know. But if the school, through its Parent Org, sells him the right to jump the line, this is tacitly condoning douche behavior, which will be modeled for young children every morning. "If you have a big penis, you my son will not have to wait!"

*happened at my child's private school this very morning! Hats off to you, prick in the Volvo SUV with DC plates starting CT-xxxx. Cross walks: who needs them?

[Anonymous]

ummm, what am I missing? I sit in these lines with everyone else, and if someone "bought" the ability to jump the line, well then, bully for them. I am not rankled. I do not wonder about teacher salaries or insurance or messages sent about snottiness or what is says to my kid, etc. It is just a car. My time is no more or less valuable then anyone else's, and if THAT person feels the need to buy more time, have at it.

I have bigger problems and more things to worry about. Why does everyone on this site need to globalize everything into some kind of drama? It is a car people. A fucking car. Chances are, your kids are going to some of the nicest and best schools in the area. Sit tight, listen to some NPR, practice your yoga breathing. Everything will be alllllllriiiiiiight.