There Needs to Be Enforced Equity Among PTA's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

I have reached out to other pta,s and no response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

I have reached out to other pta,s and no response.

I would contact MCCPTA. They may know of specific schools looking for partnerships and can connect you.

[Anonymous]

This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

How about contacting a PTA president or school directly? I think principles talk to each other and then the principles get the PTAs involved.

Aside from PTAs I know my church does a lot of outreach, fundraising and gives away backpacks to kids and schools in need. Pardon my ignorance but what kind of resources are you talking about? I thought title I schools had more funding for supplies and enrichment partly because the county recognizes that the PTA can’t fundraise as much as other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

1. This is not going to happen.

2. Majority well off people will opt for privates and you will be exactly where you started. Focus on building your own communities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

Unless it is a magnet program, very few families want ti send their kids across the town to attend schools. If you force students go, the family will move or take kids out of mcps. Why cannot mcps send the kids from poor family into a school on west side? How many poor families want their kids to be bussed across the town? How working parents, both MC and poor, participate school activities if their ‘home’ schools are 30-45 minutes away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

1. This is not going to happen.

2. Majority well off people will opt for privates and you will be exactly where you started. Focus on building your own communities.

Exactly. The well off will just leave for privates or another county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

I have reached out to other pta,s and no response.

I would contact MCCPTA. They may know of specific schools looking for partnerships and can connect you.

They refuse to help too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

1. This is not going to happen.

2. Majority well off people will opt for privates and you will be exactly where you started. Focus on building your own communities.

PP is already in our community.

You just DGAF about your community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

I don’t believe that pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

I don’t believe that pp.

We were at an ES where the teachers could not ask of anything. I just sent extra stuff regularly. It was the principal not MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

I don’t believe that pp.

We were at an ES where the teachers could not ask of anything. I just sent extra stuff regularly. It was the principal not MCPS.

I'm surprised. What school was this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCCPTA will help ANY school find a sister school to help with funding.

There is a FB page right now devoted to MCPS teachers asking for what they need for their classrooms (with Amazon links) and parents across the county are buying items for schools across the county.

Boosters at HSs (we are not at Whitman but have a booster) support the kids activities. So the soccer team asks for new goals, the theatre program new lights, etc. Yes, funded by parents. These kids probably also play club soccer and take classes at Imagination Stage, or Adventure Theatre. Should they not do that since not everyone can afford those activities either?

Life isn't fair, I drive a 14 year old car and would prefer not to, but it is what it is. There are lots of ways for schools and individual teachers to get help and assistance, they just have to ask

NP. So a GoFundMe for teaching supplies, in one of the richest counties in the country.

Instead, why not reroute a percentage of PTA donations to a common pool that's then divided across all county schools?

That already IS happening, with taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make sense to lower the ceiling. Why not raise the floor? Wealthy parents are going to send money and supplies to their kids teachers, and that is fine and normal. Most would also send in extra to share with a lower resourced school. But, I’m not going to be cheap with my donation to my own kid’s school for equity reasons. That is the problem with county-wide schools. In the Northeast, you have smaller town-based schools and they are so much easier to manage. MCPS has too many kids, too many schools, and too many disparate interests. It just doesn’t function well because it is so big.

Why do folks keep saying this. Schools in the NE town based systems that do not have wealthy or high UC bases suffer just the same as schools in county based systems.

True, though it's likely that they are not writing the other towns throughout a 1.065 million population area seeking to get their money in their hands.