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The OP left me with the impression that someone might be  real estate shopping.   Therefore Spring Hill is totally relevant.   You can have minimal or NO PTA donations.  Nobody cares.   Most join the PTA and few go to meetings unless there is something going on like school boundary stuff.[/quote]

The reason I ask is that I am coming from DC where our local public school's (affluent neighborhood west of Rock Creek, so school is excellent) PTA has family's put in $1000 per family. I guess folks in DC don't balk at that because we are so used to Sidwell etc. costing over $27,000 per year, per child! The extra $1000 per family provides extra teaching assistants in all the classrooms. The DC school district has *the* highest per child expenditure in the country, so this is on top of that. Because Fairfax is facing budget cuts, and considering McLean/Great Falls are similarly affluent areas where people care about their children's education, I wanted to know if similar things happen.

I am disappointed to hear that PTAs at some of the schools are not that active.

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The PTA's are active but a few are officers and NO cash goes to salaries and benefits for FCPS employees or supplemental employees in classrooms.     A PTA could pay a non-employee or employee for an afterschool club.  There are a lot of PTA related [or PTO in the case of Colvin Run and Spring Hill] events and volunteer opportunities.  Most activity is social or fund raising ---but the vast majority  of the general membership rarely if ever attend PTA meetings.   Big decisions are usually made by the boards not votes of the general membership.

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