Reply to In DC: "White Parents Horrified by George Floyd Video Still Go to Great Lengths..."

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "In DC: "White Parents Horrified by George Floyd Video Still Go to Great Lengths...""

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go ahead and try to create a “PTO tax” and see how that works out. DC Council flirted with the idea of taking PTO funds from NW schools and giving them to poor schools. Parents made it clear their funding of the PTO would stop immediately and contributions a would be in-kind instead. Parents who are already paying their fair share in taxes expect the money they spend to benefit their own children to do just that. Not to be used for a Robinhood effort. [/quote]

The problem with this argument is that many, many school districts prohibit this kind of fundraising by individual PTOs. Having one school raise 100k while another does not even have a PTO is clearly an issue. A redistribution of a portion of funds would make good sense. Or a program with a partner school to build long-term bonds.[/quote]

Having one PTO raise $100K and another does not is clearly not an issue, because $100,000 is a drop in the bucket of a school budget. DC spends $23,000 on *each* student in a school. We have the second highest school funding in the country. The money PTO's raise is a nice gesture but it ultimately doesn't a lick of difference to anything.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/comm/school-system-spending.html[/quote]

Is that the lie you like to tell yourself?[/quote]

No, I just don't know if a number is big or small unless I compare it to something else. And PTO money is peanuts compared to school's overall budgets. But sure, if it makes you feel like some kind of freedom fighter -- and it clearly does -- then let's blow up PTO collections into some big scary monster. I personally have no idea how much the PTO raises at my school. I've never even heard anyone discuss it. No one seems to really care. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics