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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do parents get one of the coveted Janney garage parking passes?  A few parents have them.  Are they the "queen bee" volunteers?[/quote]

They buy them at the auction.  $3-4k for a spot.[/quote]

This being a Janney thread, I actually cannot tell if you are serious or this is a joke, people paying ("donating") for these privileges at a public school.

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This is not a joke!  [/quote]

Back in the days before the construction, it was possible to buy a reserved parking spot in the teacher parking lot at the annual Mann auction.  I don't remember what it would usually fetch.  I do remember that one year it was won by a family whose kids were always late to school.  It allowed them to pull in at 8:44 and drop their kids off before the second bell without having to waste time circling the block looking for parking.

It is still possible to buy prime reserved seating for the school play, principal for the day, sleepover birthday parties at school hosted by the principal, etc. at the Mann auction.[/quote]

This seems wildly inappropriate, and possibly illegal.[/quote]

Janney has sleepovers sold at the school auction too.  About 4 to 5 grand a night.  Buying these definitely helps you with popularity. [/quote]

Yu Ying also auctions such items (parking spot/carpool lane access without a carpool, sleepover at school, playdates with teachers).  It's called a fund-raiser - the point is to raise funds for the school: everybody wins.   I've never heard anybody complain about such things until this thread.  The popularity obsession comes across as particularly juvenile.  It seems more likely to reflect a chip on one or two persons' shoulders than a characteristic which applies to the entire Janney population.[/quote]

Agreed, our school offers these things in our auction, and they usually bring in several hundred (not thousands) of dollars.  They are great because you don't have to go begging to local businesses and they are something people really like.  For the sleepover, like 8 parents will chip in $75 to get it.  We are not big spenders at our school but it is an easy way to raise money, an easy offering from the teachers, and a great treat for the kids.  It is crazy to me that people are offended by this.[/quote]

I am not one of the ones who is offended, but to me the dollar value at Janney is eyebrow-raising. $3,000 is a huge amount of money for one family to donate to a public school PTA on one day. Reminds me more of a law firm charity auction where the partners are bidding those sums on donated bottles of wine.

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I am really appalled by comments by this. you are basically complaining that a family donated $3000 of their money to a public school instead of splurging on something for themselves.    I am a parent at another JKLM school, and in my kids' 5 year at the school, I bought once a $150 at the auction and once a $300 item, and I can certainly not donate anywhere near $3000 without denting our savings.  a lot of people in our school are the same, but there have been people who bought items at the action for significant amounts. I am extremely grateful to them, instead of spending that money of themselves or their kids, they donated it to the school, allowing the school to finance teacher aides and other important staff positions, field trips, electronic equipment for the school and stuff like that, which clearly benefits the most the kids who have less privileged backgrounds.  [/quote]

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