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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would people support the idea of choosing some specific enrichment programs for after school and trying to offer those at every ES? Like a coding class, robotics class, art club, drama club, and chess club. That way there would be similar after school programs offered at every ES. I know that our PTA helps to find and pay for these type of activities at our school. I understand that there are fewer of these activities available at the less well off schools, so joint funds to provide the same base after school activities. [/quote]

There have been a lot of great ideas but shouldn't the PTAs start with working with APS on these "unequal schools" as Emily Vincent said? She said that the PTAs are making the disparities bigger so why not start with the core issue of her statement: Arlington schools are unequal.

Why not make APS address the disparities that APS has created?  And then move on to balancing the PTAs money.  Wouldn't there then be a clearer picture of what is really needed?

It sounds the Arlington Council of PTAs must be keeping some sort of list to make this very serious statement but I don't see it on their website.

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While I share the equity concerns surrounding PTA funding, we should keep APs far removed. They are completely inept and political. And Vincent is either a hack or deluded based on some of the emails she sends. Still, CCPRa should develop a policy where 10% of funds go to a redistribution pot for underserved kids. It doesn’t sound like a lot but some of these north Arlington school are swimming in it. [/quote]

Why should APS be removed?  Why shouldn't they be made to address the "unequal schools" that they have apparently created?  That's a far more serious issue than the 10K or 15K or whatever PTAs need to redistribute.

Solve the root problem of unequal schools in APS first  - should be easy with all those federal funds they are swimming in.

How are the actual schools unequal? She asserted the schools are unequal so what does that look like for these schools? I'm not talking about what the PTAs do to supplement.  At the APS baseline, how are these schools unequal?

She may be a hack but words have meaning and she should be made to explain hers.  
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