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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mathcounts is parent volunteer led, not teacher led.

I think the big question is if this means cutting the after school busses. Clubs like D&D, Magic the Gathering, and the like could be parent led. That model though leads to the same issues we have in ES where some scholls have lots of PTA sponsored programs and others have little to nothing.[/quote]

Interesting--at which school is it parent led? I've led it at two different ones over the years (as a teacher).[/quote]

Carson, there is a Teacher that is officially attached but the people teaching are parent volunteers. At some point in time, I was told that Mathcounts was specifically meant to be volunteer run, but I didn't see anything on the Mathcounts website that states that.

A good number of the clubs really require an adult to be in the room and make sure that the kids are not doing anything problematic. Our ES clubs were all parent run/supervised and there was no problem finding people to run them. We were at a low FARMs school with a good number of SAHP. The PTA led model at ES leads to far fewer activities on offer at poorer ES and more offerings as income at the schools increased. You would run into the same issue at MS if they were to revert to the PTA sponsored method.

DH volunteered to run a club at our ES, he works from home, and we knew a good number of others who did the same. Yes, there was coverage at home but the advantage of a club is socialization and sharing common interests with other kids. They also allow kids to explore new interests. There are SAHP and WFHP are willing to make time for that, even if it is not an option at every school. [/quote]

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