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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Auctioning teacher experiences is a bad practice.

Remember the Oyster teacher who molested a student? The movie night he hosted for students was one of the most popular items.

It also puts teachers in a bad position, pressuring them to spend personal time basically babysitting your kids. They won't tell you this, but it is an imposition. 
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We know it's an imposition, but it brings in tons of money. And also, the PTA raises this money so 100% of the budget goes to their *just* under 6-figure salaries. They earn it, for sure, but that's pretty nice compensation for a teacher given our society undervalues them so much.[/quote]

You think PTA funds have anything to do with teacher salaries? It's a pay scale across all of DCPS. This isn't private school! What snobby comment.[/quote]

What they are saying is that since the PTA raises so much money, [b]the PTA pays for non-staff expenditures that DCPS would otherwise provide[/b]. They are not paying the teacher's salary but by agreeing to pay for items normally paid for in the budget the principal can usually hire additional staff. But you are still right, it's a snobby comment. It reminds me of the kids in college who would steal things "because our tuition paid for it."[/quote]

By paying for things that DCPS should be paying for, Janney parents are masking the deficiency of the DCPS school budget and actually exacerbate the problem. Taking of your own to "keep Janney one of the best schools in the city" is selfish, smacks of privilege and does nothing to change the institutional problems.

Rather than paying for things to make up for what you think should be available at public school, or at least in addition to, why don't the wealthy kids go en masse to LOBBY the Council, sponsor a call/write your council member and work get the per-pupil allocation raised which would help ALL students in the District and perhaps reduce the OOB demand for your schools.

And before you bring up "extra funding" for Title 1 schools, those funds are earmarked for specific supports for students who are homeless, poor, and foster kids. It isn't spent on general school support for the modest number of working to middle class kids in the Title 1 schools. [/quote]

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