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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids at an ES with high-ish fees and I’m not comfortable with them asking for them at all. It only reinforces educational inequalities across the city. If the PTOs want to get together and create a central fund that is distributed across public schools city-wide, cool but that will never happen.[/quote]

I agree with you. It’s gross. It’s the wealthier schools, raising their own little money to make their own little school better if they want more money for schools, they should advocate for more money in the budget or do what you said about equalizing the PTOs. in Montgomery County, the PTO funding is equalized[/quote]

I didn't know that about MoCo.  I would be interested to see if there was any change in fundraising levels before and after that policy.  I would tend to agree with PPs who have posited such a policy would depress donations, but it would be very interesting to see actual data on how that plays out.  For myself, I think I would contribute significantly less to a shared pot -- I would find alternatives (like buying directly off teacher wish lists) or pay for enrichment for my kid directly -- there are some economies of scale in the school benefits we get from PTO donations, but for the amount of money I donate I could get pretty much the same utility by hiring tutors, etc, just for my kid.[/quote]

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