Grade your school's distance learning approach
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Anonymous
If just supplies, that should be NO WHERE near $200. Are you sure that didn't include field trips? |
Anonymous
Pretty sure that was just a very generous estimate of an entire year's worth of supplies, and shoes, and I don't think we ever spent nearly that much. This year, that much was not spent by PTO either. Strange thing to be fixating on. |
Anonymous
The point is that if the PTO is telling parents their school supplies cost $200, they are either not being transparent at all, or buying gold-plated crayons. |
Anonymous
For goodness sakes, this is a ridiculous obsession. But i believe this also included money for snacks. The school was going to start buying snacks so the parents didn't have to do it. I LOOOOOVe this idea. |
Anonymous
Or they’re buying them at an inflated price so that lamb can use the money without strings? |
Anonymous
It’s not ridiculous. The pto is the custodian of parent funds, and they should have been up front and stated the amount in the email. |
Anonymous
What?? This makes no sense. Snacks for whom with distance learning? So PTO has no idea when kids will be back in school if at all for most of this year and charging parents for snacks? Is the PTO planning on delivering these snacks to the home of families? Agree as someone posted, there needs to be more transparency of how PTO funds are used. |
Anonymous
Note this post above: "It wasn’t. I know the exact cost of each box because I was brought into the decision-making process for the PTO covering it. The $200 per child for school supplies that has been estimated in the past refers to a normal year when kids have a full list of supplies to bring to the class (wipes, class shoes, etc.). If someone told you the supply box for this year cost $200, they were very misinformed." Of course we aren't buying snacks now, and the boxes don't cost $200 now. Get a grip! |
Anonymous
The PTO also doesn't create the supply lists, manage the snack requests, or collect money for field trips in normal years - the school administration does. The only thing that the PTO has to do with supplies is making the decision to cover the cost of boxes for home learning this year (boxes that were created by the school administration btw - the PTO did not decide what went in them). People need to redirect this weird anger. |
Anonymous
Sorry but that's not true. Schools with strong PTOs actually do all the financials because its very hard for schools to collect and deposit funds from families. Generally the school sets out what they need, the PTO then collects the funds and writes a check to cover the cost of the supplies and field trips and snacks etc. This also allows the school to use school buses and suppliers that are not DCPS-approved, meaning they can get more competitive rates and better products. This is a tangent, sure, but any school who's PTO isn't being upfront and clear about costs and where parent dollars go is going to wind up in trouble one way or the other. |
Anonymous
That may be true for other schools, but the LAMB PTO has not done any of that in recent years. All of those aspects were handled by the school administration, including field trips. There are other reasons to potentially be critical of the PTO, but it is not this one. |
Anonymous
Why didn’t the cost of the boxes get shared with parents then? Why are you so angry when people ask a reasonable question? It should have been put in the email to parents. The pto should disclose where funds are allocated, especially now when so many of us are struggling. |
Anonymous
| DCI/HighSchool/A++ |
Anonymous
| Lee Montessori Prek/k class A+ |
Anonymous
A+ for virtual pre-k? Please share the amazing secret that has your 3 year old learning just as well as they would in person from a screen! |