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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harshburger!

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Even in cities where the rich and poor continue to live under the same local government, economic segregation saps political support for common, egalitarian infrastructure. Rich New Yorkers donate generously to beautify Central Park while resisting the taxation necessary to maintain parks in neighborhoods they never visit. [b]In Washington, D.C., parents in wealthier neighborhoods contribute lavishly to parent-teacher organizations that provide extra money to public schools in their neighborhoods, but they do not vote for a similar level of funding for all city schools. [url=https://udcedu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=8c14b2842199454bb57543e62f6eb5e1]Two schools in northwest Washington each raised more than half a million dollars in 2017[/url], while several schools in southeast Washington don’t even have parent-teacher organizations. [/b]Last year, for the third time since 1970, the residents of Gwinnett County, Ga., which sits on the edge of Atlanta, refused to fund an expansion of the regional transit system into their suburban county.[/i][/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-us-cities-inequality.html[/quote]

We've paid our taxes. It's up to the government to figure out how to spend it, equitably (however you define it) or otherwise. If you don't like it, vote them out. Stop shaming people for not voting for an extra special assessment. It's just a way for politicians to divide and conquer.[/quote]

I'll stop thinking that these inequitable PTA budgets are shameful if you promise not to object if the D.C. Council proposes raising your taxes to add $500,000 in funds to every elementary school in the city besides Janney and Mann. That way, everybody wins![/quote]

If this annoys you, then you should copy what is done and get a group of parents to organize a school auction, sell Christmas trees in the winter, get local businesses to support you.  The money is raised with a lot of free hours logged by parents.  This model is available to everyone to emulate.[/quote]

Easier said than done. Who do you think buys the items at the auction? Parents who can afford it. How do you think HSAs pay for those Christmas trees to sell?  With money raised from parents. Who do think does all that work getting businesses to donate?  Parents with the time because that aren’t working two jobs. This is why extra funds should and do go to schools that need them. What I don’t get is why anyone would oppose anyone giving money to public schools. [/quote]

Yeah I hear you and I know what you say is true.....but you could still organize and do what you can.  I grew up in a working class town.  We raised money in high school for field trips by parents and students picking up trash at the town festivals, washing cars in our school parking lot, selling Xmas trees, and can recycling drives.  We funded two school trips from the east coast to see the Everglades in Florida and to the Grand Canyon in Arizona.  There are moms I know who have organized auctions in ward 3 that are dual full time workers too.[/quote]

I'm a member of one of most active PTAs EOTP and we still raise less than 100K at the end of all that. The idea that elementary school PTAs are able to raise half a million dollars every year blows my mind.[/quote]

Please name your school. We can then compare the total dollars spent per student (DCPS funding plus PTA funds) between your school versus Mann and Janney.

Also, at 750 students, Janney is over twice the size of the average EOTP elementary school. So consider that when comparing PTA budgets.[/quote]

This.  You have to factor in school size and compare apples to apples.  At a school with 1000 students, of course Janney is going to raise more money by parent contribution, in addition to having more people which equals more time to organize and run fundraising events.

I am an EOTP parent with a child at a desirable charter.  We raise about 150k a year which is fine but our school is nowhere close to the huge size of Janney and unrealistic to say we are able to raise what they raise.[/quote]

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