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[quote=Anonymous]I think the issue is many-fold. PTAs are supposed to exist to advocate, not to bridge the school funding gap. [url]https://www.pta.org/home/run-your-pta/one-voice-blog/Is-Your-PTA-an-ATM-for-Your-School[/url] But you'd never know this by looking at most schools with active PTAs.

Because we fund public schools by local property taxes, we allow schools to remain hypersegregated and to face an impossible challenge of achieving the same test scores as schools with much smaller economically disadvantaged populations. These low test scores reinforce middle class aversion to sending their children to these schools, which creates a vicious cycle. This is why, almost 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, we still have an unconscionable system of segregation in our schools.

Meanwhile, MC and UMC parents who see a lot of their neighbors sending their children to private schools experience anxiety that their public school isn't providing enough for their kids (though what exactly those things are, and how they will tangibly make a difference in their child's life is vague). So then you get a PTA that operates on a huge budget to turn a public school into a private one. This requires a huge number of volunteer hours, and often a person with a certain type of personality would want to helm this ship.[/quote]

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