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[quote=Anonymous]My kid went to a poor and highly populated middle school. Our PTA fees was $12, and PTA roughly got $7 from that (the rest went to county, state and national PTA dues).   Our biggest fundraisers were book-fairs and valentine days flower sales, mainly because there were several parents who took the lead on that and ran with it.  Our budget was around 5K which was almost poverty level low for a school our size, but PTA was pretty good in organizing a lot of stuff for the entire school.

Most parents who were not PTA members, did not hesitate to donate food, goods and time to organize staff appreciation events - breakfasts, coffee, lunches, dinners. Different groups wanted to do their own food for the staff so we very often had "soul food". Latin food, Indian food, Chinese food  etc for the staff. We also used to do several "healthy snack weeks" and parents used to donate grab and go snack packs of 100 calorie snacks.   Sometimes we donated to a whole month of fruits for the staff room - apples, oranges and bananas, lots of pies for Pie Day, flowers for valentine's days.  I think parents liked to give directly for teachers and their own classrooms more than anything.  So our PTA mostly used their funds from bookfairs to fund in-school field trips for the whole school which were mostly cultural in nature.

I think if you don't want to join the PTA, you can skip, but donate directly to them for art and cultural events.  You can always pick and choose what to give and when to be involved based on what you care for. The PTA does not mind if you are a member or not as long as you are volunteering. [/quote]

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