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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend of mine in a large American city sends his kid to public school, but the PTA at that school (in a very rich neighborhood) does a huge amount of fundraising to where the quality of the school is close to private. Several times a year he posts on his FB aggressively about things like popcorn sales that his tween is supposedly doing to raise money for the school--last time it was for a very expensive trip. He will say his daughter needs to sell x amount more to be in "first place" or whatever, and the amount of popcorn sales was over 3k last time. Ridiculous. [/quote]

I used to fall for this stuff so hard. Colleagues would be like "we're raising money for the public school" and I'd go ahead and give money/buy the popcorn/whatever because I do care about supporting public schools.

Then I actually had a kid and learned more about public schools in our city and realized I'd been giving a ton of money to all the rich schools in the city for a bunch of extras that mostly only helped wealthy kids whose parents could afford those extras anyway. I felt like a chump.

Now I actually pay attention. I contribute when it's a title one school with a high at risk population, or if the fundraiser is going directly to fund an academic or enrichment activity I really support. But I don't just randomly participate in fundraisers for public schools where the average family has twice my HHI. It's ridiculous how much money I gave to those schools over the year. Oh well, hope the kids got something out of it I guess.[/quote]

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