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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Previous Taylor parent. One thing I’ll note is that Jamestown and some other NA schools get thrown around on here for self important parents etc. I don’t know if that’s true or not. But Taylor never gets mentioned in that way. In fact Taylor almost never gets mentioned at all. I found it a pretty down to earth community. [/quote]

+1. Jamestown = having your PTA fundraiser at Washington Golf. One year pre-Covid there was even a Miss America-style event where the dads threw in increasing amounts of cash to support their wives in the pageant. Wish I were kidding. It was awful.[/quote]

PP Taylor parent. Something I really appreciated about the school/PTA is that they relied almost solely on the no frills fundraiser. I don't recall there being an auction of any kind. There was a spring fair that also brought in money. But for the most part we were not constantly asked/expected to donate at various events, just donate to the no frills fundraiser and be done with it. I don't know if that changed with the new principal. We were rezoned to ASFS and I can't stand the number of fundraisers.[/quote]
This year asfs is having a lot of fundraisers because there wasn’t any fundraising last year (due to the feeling that most of the school being rezoned), and over half of the PTA’s reserve funds were given to innovation to jumpstart their pta.  Usually it’s just the auction and the no frills fundraiser, but I think that the pta reserves are really low this year.[/quote]

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