Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
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Anonymous
Aren't charters restricted to PAs (parent associations). Serious question. Ann S, head of YY's PA is excellent. But she shouldn't have to be doing the work of the admins. For example, she sent a very informative email called "Things every YY parent should know" about the hybrid plan. It's clear that lots of parents did not know, and the admins didn't tell us |
Anonymous
Ann S, head of YY's PA is excellent. But she shouldn't have to be doing the work of the admins. For example, she sent a very informative email called "Things every YY parent should know" about the hybrid plan. It's clear that lots of parents did not know, and the admins didn't tell us Yes, but it's just a PA, not a parent-teacher organization with serious fund-raising capacity, or the ability to shape school policy, like you see in a dozen DCPS programs. There are half a dozen DCPS PTAs raising more than 250K these days. Admins at these schools generally bend over backwards to avoid alienating parents bringing in that kind of dough. This is one reason we left a charter for a Capitol Hill ES where the PTA raises over 400K annually. We didn't care for the way admins often treated parents at the charter. |
Anonymous
| Potentially stupid question- are PAs at charter schools not allowed to raise $$ for the school? |
Anonymous
They are and they do. ITS parents don't even fundraise that hard and they raise over $100,000 per year. |
Anonymous
That’s impressive. What does the $$ go toward? Does the PA get to choose? |