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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The WOTP schools get less $$ per kid than title I schools. [/b] They do benefit from economies of scale because they are full, but they do not raise as much as the difference in funds.  These funds do give the schools significant flexibility in that a principal can use her budget to hire more staff because the PTA can pick up administrative costs such as supplies.

We probably give about $2000/year to our WOTP elementary (flat out checks, bidding at the auction, money spent at other fundraisers), we are not rich but we used to be in private daycare and preschool so we built this in as an expense when we dropped that cost because we want to do what we can to help make our children's education as much as we can.  We have two kids.

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Of course.  Or did you not understand that the raison d'être of Title I funding is to make a dimple of a difference in education circumstances between children from families with means, and children from families without?  It doesn't, btw, but that's a topic for another thread.[/quote]

Well, the point of the discussion (or what it has evolved into) is how it is unfair for parents to contribute or raise money for they child's school because it provides these schools with more money than others.  My point is that the wotp schools get less money to start out with.

Regardless, taking PTA money from wotp schools will not solve the problems in schools with high poverty levels among its students.  A better conversation would be what can we do for these schools to make sure they have the money, programs, and administrative resources necessary to provide such kids with the best education.  Complaining that some children have good school options while others do not does not solve any problems for the children that do not.[/quote]

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