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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthier PTAs can afford to give grants to cover teachers who sponsor extracurriculars.  Some pandemic funding that had provided a nice bump for that kind of thing fell off a cliff this year.  Also, even if a parent runs a club/activity, there typically still needs to be a staff sponsor.

Some folks are oblivious to this or other realities, thinking that funding comes from central, that teachers have all this extra time to donate (though some very generous ones do), or that kids tend to come up with academic club ideas themselves, instead of those being more family driven, with awareness, itself, tending to come from prior years' implementations.

There *are* kids at places without Mathcounts who would be interested, but without all *schools* making academic extracurriculars a priority (some don't even make them suggestions for what *could* be an option to ascertain interest), it's a chicken and egg thing, in addition to a family resource thing, and they're left out in the cold.  Those suggesting they don't exist or somehow should be fine with less are willfully ignorant or engaging in schadenfreude.[/quote]

Are you saying this MCPS stoped policy isn't true?

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/archiveDetail.aspx?id=471&year=2021&order=31&keywords=[/quote]

A few things:

1) The amounts available to each school are not nearly adequate to cover any reasonable amount of extracurricular activity.  The 350 hour allocation wouldn't even really cover 10.

2) The reimbursement rates from that allocation are very small (the base was $15/hour from the IAF in 2020).  The federal program that just sunset this year had provided something like the equivalent of overtime pay, several times the prior and now current compensation.

3) School PTAs, while restricted on directly funding some things (e.g., most capital improvements to their school building, though nice-to-haves like front signage are permitted), can supplement support for extracurriculars with mini grants and the like.  Rich PTA = more (and often better) extracurriculars.

Separately, I'm having trouble finding the March 2020 follow up that MCPS promised at the bottom of the Q&A link you provided (thanks!) that was to list extracurriculars by school.  Any chance you have a link to that?  Might it have gotten forgotten in the opening stages of the pandemic?[/quote]

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