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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not longer at Janney but for what's its worth, I raised my paddle every year for the "fund a need." But those projects never happened. Seriously, they never happened -- the shades for the white top patio area out back? The media room that was Nora's pet project? Was there a green house bandied about at some point? At a school like Janney we're raising money for ridiculous things that often never happened. I understand the few extra teachers the PTA pays for, but these auctions have lost site of what really matters. These kids need basic skills... Some (many?) of them are leaving Janney with poor writing, spelling and math skills and we're worried about video production? Parents should get together and have a great time and donate money to a west of the school park and then ask the teachers how they can support them in fighting a system that relies so heavily on test prep that we are failing kids in basic skills. [/quote]

This is the best post of the thread and I agree with it completely (former and current Janney parent here).  What ever happened to the greenhouse and media room funds?  I donated to both and they never happened. 
Almost every kid I know who left Janney (including my own) has poor writing skills and some have poor math skills as well.  It's a very common refrain among parents who were told for years at Janney that their kids were doing great.  I think this is probably fairly common in public school in general (or even in school in general in 2019) but it was a shock to us when we realized how little our kids knew upon graduation.  We've worked hard to catch them up and one is now going to an elite private for high school (the other one is younger) but it's not due to what they learned at Janney.  A lot of Janney is smoke and mirrors sucked right up by parents who want to believe that their kids were getting the best possible education.  As I mentioned above, I also currently have a kid there but we're supplementing from the early years this time around. [/quote]

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