Janney auction tickets are $100 a person this year

[Anonymous]

$100! Sticker shock is hitting me hard, folks. If they gave me a good BBQ sandwich and cornbread, I could live with it. Instead, you get fancy-pants servers in Appleton acting like it’s a white apron joint than none of us are welcome in. Let’s not worry about ticket price. Instead, let’s optimize amenities. I could whip up some of my nana’s BBq sauce for $25 and everyone would go home happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$100! Sticker shock is hitting me hard, folks. If they gave me a good BBQ sandwich and cornbread, I could live with it. Instead, you get fancy-pants servers in Appleton acting like it’s a white apron joint than none of us are welcome in. Let’s not worry about ticket price. Instead, let’s optimize amenities. I could whip up some of my nana’s BBq sauce for $25 and everyone would go home happy.

The money is supposed to go to raise funds for kid’s’ classrooms. If you want food to your tastes, go to a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$100! Sticker shock is hitting me hard, folks. If they gave me a good BBQ sandwich and cornbread, I could live with it. Instead, you get fancy-pants servers in Appleton acting like it’s a white apron joint than none of us are welcome in. Let’s not worry about ticket price. Instead, let’s optimize amenities. I could whip up some of my nana’s BBq sauce for $25 and everyone would go home happy.

The money is supposed to go to raise funds for kid’s’ classrooms. If you want food to your tastes, go to a restaurant.

My point exactly. Whippin’ Up some BBQ in more cost-effective. Don’t be snippy. We share one community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$100! Sticker shock is hitting me hard, folks. If they gave me a good BBQ sandwich and cornbread, I could live with it. Instead, you get fancy-pants servers in Appleton acting like it’s a white apron joint than none of us are welcome in. Let’s not worry about ticket price. Instead, let’s optimize amenities. I could whip up some of my nana’s BBq sauce for $25 and everyone would go home happy.

The money is supposed to go to raise funds for kid’s’ classrooms. If you want food to your tastes, go to a restaurant.

My point exactly. Whippin’ Up some BBQ in more cost-effective. Don’t be snippy. We share one community.

So you want the committee to cook the food also?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$100! Sticker shock is hitting me hard, folks. If they gave me a good BBQ sandwich and cornbread, I could live with it. Instead, you get fancy-pants servers in Appleton acting like it’s a white apron joint than none of us are welcome in. Let’s not worry about ticket price. Instead, let’s optimize amenities. I could whip up some of my nana’s BBq sauce for $25 and everyone would go home happy.

The money is supposed to go to raise funds for kid’s’ classrooms. If you want food to your tastes, go to a restaurant.

My point exactly. Whippin’ Up some BBQ in more cost-effective. Don’t be snippy. We share one community.

So you want the committee to cook the food also?

A few parents could whip up a home-cooked feast. Shop at Food Lion not Whole Paycheck. Cut out the caterers and the massive overhead.

[Anonymous]

Are you raising your hand to chair the auction refreshment for next year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Janney parent who doesn’t attend the auction. I think the majority of parents don’t attend. I pay the full SFF for my kids, contributed a small item for the classroom auction item, so I’m doing my part.

What is the handwringing over this? Nearly every other school event is free. I went one year, didn’t buy anything and it was just a lot of drinking in your kids’ school hallways. Really, you aren’t missing anything.

One reason the price may have been raised (I have no inside info) may be that fewer parents are paying the SFF, so they need to raise funds in other ways or cut services or extra staff that families have come to rely on.

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Auction is fun. There are several Drunken Janney Moms that typically grab the mike and sing disco songs. The open air block party (sponsored by WaWa this year) on Yuma St. is a great addition and should allow parents to metabolize the alcohol in a less sex-fueled environment than the typical event at a wealth donor’s house.

Didn't a PP say the auction is at the school? Are they allowed to have alcohol there?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Janney parent who doesn’t attend the auction. I think the majority of parents don’t attend. I pay the full SFF for my kids, contributed a small item for the classroom auction item, so I’m doing my part.

What is the handwringing over this? Nearly every other school event is free. I went one year, didn’t buy anything and it was just a lot of drinking in your kids’ school hallways. Really, you aren’t missing anything.

One reason the price may have been raised (I have no inside info) may be that fewer parents are paying the SFF, so they need to raise funds in other ways or cut services or extra staff that families have come to rely on.

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Auction is fun. There are several Drunken Janney Moms that typically grab the mike and sing disco songs. The open air block party (sponsored by WaWa this year) on Yuma St. is a great addition and should allow parents to metabolize the alcohol in a less sex-fueled environment than the typical event at a wealth donor’s house.

Didn't a PP say the auction is at the school? Are they allowed to have alcohol there?

There’s a lot of pre-party drinking by the hardcore DJMs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Auctioning teacher experiences is a bad practice.

Remember the Oyster teacher who molested a student? The movie night he hosted for students was one of the most popular items.

It also puts teachers in a bad position, pressuring them to spend personal time basically babysitting your kids. They won't tell you this, but it is an imposition.

We know it's an imposition, but it brings in tons of money. And also, the PTA raises this money so 100% of the budget goes to their *just* under 6-figure salaries. They earn it, for sure, but that's pretty nice compensation for a teacher given our society undervalues them so much.

You think PTA funds have anything to do with teacher salaries? It's a pay scale across all of DCPS. This isn't private school! What snobby comment.

What they are saying is that since the PTA raises so much money, the PTA pays for non-staff expenditures that DCPS would otherwise provide. They are not paying the teacher's salary but by agreeing to pay for items normally paid for in the budget the principal can usually hire additional staff. But you are still right, it's a snobby comment. It reminds me of the kids in college who would steal things "because our tuition paid for it."

By paying for things that DCPS should be paying for, Janney parents are masking the deficiency of the DCPS school budget and actually exacerbate the problem. Taking of your own to "keep Janney one of the best schools in the city" is selfish, smacks of privilege and does nothing to change the institutional problems.

Rather than paying for things to make up for what you think should be available at public school, or at least in addition to, why don't the wealthy kids go en masse to LOBBY the Council, sponsor a call/write your council member and work get the per-pupil allocation raised which would help ALL students in the District and perhaps reduce the OOB demand for your schools.

And before you bring up "extra funding" for Title 1 schools, those funds are earmarked for specific supports for students who are homeless, poor, and foster kids. It isn't spent on general school support for the modest number of working to middle class kids in the Title 1 schools.

The best way to fix DCPS is to fire everyone in the central office and all of the consultants. Start over. Get rid of those who view a DCPS job as an entitlement because they are from DC. Janney parents should make no apologies that they have been able to wrest a modicum of autonomy away from the dead hand school bureaucracy and have a superior school as a result. It is not the responsibility of the Janney community to save DCPS or to subsidize it. DCPS doesn’t have a money problem. It has a management and grifter problem.

[Anonymous]

Ummm Janney IS subsidizing DCPS by raising money through an auction and other means.

[Anonymous]

Agree with PP.

We are at another WTOP school that also has an auction. Our efforts support school initiatives and more than 15 assistant positions.

We make tickets available to staff and to families whose budgets don’t stretch as far as needed. Community building is an essential component not just the funds raised.

Our auction this year is led by a single parent. Held at the school. A lot of people pitching in, big and small.

Fancy is not a requirement.

[Anonymous]

Interesting mix, you got the rachet og parents vs the sophisticated. I'll take my low farm public or private over this inclusion whining.

[Anonymous]

How about actually requiring spices when you choose a caterer? The food is always bland. We don’t need crudités. Something substantial is expected for that price. How about spicy saucage soup? Or Mexican?

If I were running things, people would be happy to pay $100 a pop. I’d treat people right— just like a restaurant- and make the experience special. Food would be flavorful, fresh and served at the proper temperature. Cold food would be chilled until dinner. Hot food would be in heating trays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting mix, you got the rachet og parents vs the sophisticated. I'll take my low farm public or private over this inclusion whining.

Diversity and inclusion are overrated. I’ll take top academics any day.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting mix, you got the rachet og parents vs the sophisticated. I'll take my low farm public or private over this inclusion whining.

Diversity and inclusion are overrated. I’ll take top academics any day.

They arent mutually exclusive. Care to share your yearbook?