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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most parents have no idea what the PTA can do or not do. PTA is not there to run the school and buy supplies for the teachers.  However, through the PTA, creative workarounds can result in enrichment for the students and infrastructure for programing that MCPS and schools are not providing.

However, this requires a certain degree of education and sophistication from the PTA volunteers (usually moms) to navigate how they bring these programs in to the school while being in compliance with the MCPS and PTA rules.

Most of the W-Schools parent volunteers  have access to lawyers (or they are lawyers themselves) and they have hit upon the solution of having an educational foundation that can bypass MCPS and PTA rules of gifts to teachers and actually fund not only classroom supplies but also bring many amazing opportunities to their students.

As a non-W school parent, I am thankful to these PTAs and educational foundation for having shown me the workaround to do something similar for my kid's school.  These PTAs and Foundations are amazing resources for other parents in the county who want to bring opportunities for their children. Who is stopping us from copying them? [b]Only our own laziness[/b].

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Yeah, no, don't try to put this on us. We are not lazy. We know how to set it up. [b]The issue is no parent involvement and parents contribute little. That is the core problem.[/b] [/quote]

Then they deserve NOTHING. Why bellyache about other parents in other schools that do contribute and their fully funded PTAs? You cannot help those who do not want to be helped.  :lol:

Your problem is not other rich PTAs. Your problem is the undeserving, dysfunctional and checked out parents you want to help. So why you want to penalize the PTAs that do work well?  [b]This kind of jealousy and desire to dismantle what works for others is such an ugly and hideous look.[/b] [/quote]

Who wants to dismantle anything? Keep up lady. We are simply stating that the MCCPTA can reorganize so that they can efficiently help schools that need help the most. And get out of your bubble- schools that need help aren't full of underserving, dysfunctional and checked out parents. Have you thought that maybe there are  parents at these schools who do want to help but don't have the big pockets to spend on membership fees and donations? [/quote]

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