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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I’m not sure why this is a PTA issue. At our prior ES, our teachers would create Amazon lists and the room parents would send via email supply lists and the parents would buy everything and then some for classroom supplies. [/b]

Why do so many counties ban the sharing of Amazon lists to parents? I'm at a high FARMs school and I'd buy anything off my teacher's list.

I'm convinced that counties/state/America likes income segregation. Why else would they not allow parents to pick and choose schools? Why else would schools not be funded similarly? My current school's boundaries were reconfigured to create a high poverty school so that it would be designated as a Title one school. They would get more money for resource teachers and help kids learn English, hire more translators for parents, etc. When poverty is such an issue like this, why aren't they starting long before Kindergarten?! Where are the tutoring summer camps and after care programs? [/quote]

There are rules (in the name of equity and impartiality)  that prevents PTA to donate to teachers directly. A workaround is creating a foundation where you can give "grants" to teachers for supplies.

Another thing is the MCPS gives some money to teachers for supplies each year BUT, they can only order from MCPS-approved vendors and these vendors have marked up their supplies to astronomical amounts.  Buying a stapler for a teacher through the approved MCPS vendor means that the teacher has used almost half of their recommended amount.  Follow the money and ask for the list of these vendors and their prices.  MCPS is very corrupt.

The teachers are also not very helpful because of their unions and other interests to make things easier. They can create a combined wishlist but they don't. Some of them are corrupt also and have items that they don't use in the classroom. I was giving jumbo sized everything to my son's teacher from COSTCO and he was basically taking some home. Eventually, I started to ration it for him for each quarter. It was tiresome. [/quote]

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