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Our school has a PTO. But a teacher wants to spend money differently and on their own terms so solicited donations from the parent community for their own use without PTO oversight. They asked to give cash or check written to the “Student Activity Fund”.

We were told the “Student Activity Fund” was used to hold left over field trip money (I.e the school says the cost of a field trip is $25 when it’s really only $23 and then the school keeps the left over $2 for kids who can’t pay).

[b]My question is - can an individual teacher or support staff solicit funds to use as they please. Who would have oversight?[/b][/quote]

Of course they can. The PTO has NO authority on this kind of thing. [/quote]

Guys - I’m talking about [b]general solicitations for no specific purpose[/b].

This is [b]not a power-play question. [/b]It is simply about the purpose of the solicitation. I.e. it’s different if somebody’s asking for a field trip fund amount versus just give us some money. There’s all sorts of rules around how organizations use money who has say have the money is used if it’s collected by the school? There’s a reason schools don’t do this and they use parent organizations.

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“ But a teacher wants to spend money differently and on their own terms”

Pick a story and stick to it. Is a teacher soliciting donations for no purpose and you don’t want more money for your school? Or the teacher is doing something the “no power play” PTO doesn’t want to fund and you’re trying to get them in trouble?

Just email the principal for goodness sakes. [/quote]

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