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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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]

Schools are funded similarly by MCPS.  In fact, some baseline ECs are available for each school from MCPS and the county. What is needed though is for parents to ask for it via the PTA etc. However, most of us are unaware of what we need to do, what the PTA can do, what MCPS can do and we are given the runaround. That is why, after hating the PTA for many years, I joined the PTA and used their respources to bring programs to my kid's school.  [/quote]

As a parent, I learned most PTA's don't focus on teachers and the parents pet projects so you are far best to buy directly for the teacher - extra supplies, books, games, snacks, cleaning products.  Just send it in so if they are at a school that they cannot  ask, they get it.  Or, you can send up to 5 $20 gift cards a year per teacher.  Just not all at once.[/quote]

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