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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm curious - what high quality extracurriculars from which vendors in particular would you want to see in your school? Specific company and program. What is stopping you from being the after-school activities coordinator at your school and bringing in those particular vendors and requiring them to offer scholarships to lower income students at your school? I ask this as someone who has managed after-school activities at my child's school for many years and walk the walk.

I tried to be the coordinator. The problem was that the principal wanted to pay for all the kids enrolled into an activity. He wasn’t sure which activity he wanted (probably one sport and one stem activity). 
I didn’t get to the stage of talking to vendors, but I am not sure they would have been interested since not many kids would sign up. 
Also, I would have to do all the scheduling and coordinating, whereas at the new low farms school there is a whole committee that does it (and I am not even enrolling my child anymore since he is at an offsite aftercare). 
It is so much easier when you are not shouldering the whole burden.[/quote]

These are small vendors that run on slim margins. I doubt any of them can afford not to charge the majority of kids just because its a low income school. The small number of non FARMS parents would need to donate more money to cover the low income kids. The so called wealthy parents in schools with low income kids are not so wealthy that they can afford to subsidize all the low income kids. Honestly, for most of these parents if they were a little wealthier they wouldn't be living here or they would be in private schools.

It just practical to expect that this small group of parents will be the financial providers for the rest of the school.

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