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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Families looking for discounts are not interested in supporting the school or the school community.  Let them bargain shop elsewhere.[/quote]

This comment makes zero sense.[/quote]

I get it from a school budget perspective.  Full pay families have to subsidize the FA families.  Many are also donating on top of that.[/quote]

That has nothing to do with saying that families looking for financial aid aren’t interested in supporting the school or the community. An absurd comment.[/quote]

A prior poster here with about 300k income said a 20% tuition discount was not big enough.

The best way I know of measuring support to a school is in dollars.[/quote]
Time is money. All the schools DC has attended have been extremely appreciative of the parent volunteers that make dozens of things possible, from teacher appreciation events to early-years holiday room parties to the parents who organize meals for the HS students staying at rehearsal until 8 pm for the play. [/quote]

That happens everywhere, including public schools.  Not the same as financial support but also appreciated.[/quote]
Financial support also happens everywhere, including publics, even if your kid doesn’t go to the local public. Source: the fliers stuck in my door by students asking for donations or selling products in support of the local (Fairfax) public ES, MS, and HS drama departments, bands, and every individual sport under the sun. Some of which I do give money to, along with my kid’s private school. [/quote]

Kids fundraising is not relevant at all here.[/quote]

Sure it is. Who do you think disproportionately contributes? Other parents.

You’ve concocted some weird view where only full pay families can support the school through financial contributions and now you can’t get out of it.[/quote]

The kids are fundraising for their hobbies at the school: some music group, sports team, or whatever rather than paying the normal activities fees.  It is because the parents are cheap and are crowdsourcing their kid’s extracurricular costs.  It is not contributing to the school at all.

There is a big difference.  Private schools have a development office where $10-20M of the annual budget comes from donors.

[b]Public schools have bake sales to raise money for the dance troop.  This is instead of the parents just paying activities fees.  Or fundraising for a class trip, rather than just charging the parents the cost of the trip.[/b]

There is no comparison.[/quote]

So you admit that the parents are covering costs that other schools would just charge for. So they are contributing financially to the school, just in a different form.

Whether it is on the same scale is irrelevant. We are talking about how families contribute to a school, both financially and non-financially. You keep throwing out red herrings.

Additionally, many families who receive FA are only receiving partial amounts and still donate when the asks start to come in.

None of your points make sense.[/quote]

At private schools, the school is fundraising for themselves through a development office

At public school, the school does zero fundraising.  To minimize activity fees for parents, the kids fundraise for their parents to cover activity fees for their hobbies.  They are fundraising for their parents to cover the costs of their hobbies.

It really couldn’t be any more black and white.[/quote]

So, again, both sets of parents are contributing financially. And then there are non-financial contributions. And this is how parents contribute to the school and community, including ones on FA at privates. That’s all we’re talking about here, not whatever new argument you try to invent when you lose the previous one.[/quote]

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