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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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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Yeah, it doesn't really seem like the fact that there are people who can't afford to attend a Saturday night party (especially if part of the reason they can't attend is the additional cost of childcare or the cost of buying something at the auction, which seems entirely optional) is a major educational equity issue. The same PTA recently put on a bingo night with $2 slices of pizza and sponsored a book fair where you could get an entire grocery bag of used books for $5. That seems like a far better way of building community than the auction is, anyway, even if literally every family at the school showed up for the auction.

There's a lot to criticize in the way D.C. public schools operate, and specifically in the way public schools in wealthy neighborhoods operate. So far, this long thread doesn't offer much evidence that the price of the auction tickets is really a serious problem.[/quote]

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