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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe some families are struggling and don’t feel it’s prudent to contribute to such non-essential nonsense. You do you. [/quote]

Our school dictates the parties.  I don’t care if you donate but yes, we see your the biggest house in the neighborhood and drive the fanciest new car and then scream poverty over donating some napkins from dollar tree.  Your kids will have fun and be treated the same either way.  [/quote]

Your school tells you that there needs to be a party, or that it needs to have pizza and fancy napkins?

And is it the school or the PTA?[/quote]

School dictates it. Dollar tree is fancy?   A few $5 pizzas is fancy.[/quote]

27 $5 pizzas to be precise.

Most schools have free paper towels that work just fine to put a cupcake on.  So yes. Judging a parent because they won’t make a special run to a special store is absurd.  I am happy to have my kid eat off the school paper towels.  I am happy to send you 30 napkins from the stack in my kitchen.  If you are not happy to have those napkins in your pictures then please purchase them yourself.

I am a parent who contributes to the school.  My kid’s teacher know that.  I don’t need PTA mom to validate me.

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If you don't want to give or have your child participate you can opt out.  Most people grocery shop once a week.  Is it really that hard or send in a few dollars?  Our PTA has nothing to do with classroom parties.  We don't always have basics at our school like paper towels or soap.[/quote]

When my DS teacher asks for classroom supplies, I provide supplies. Occassionally I bring in a box of granola bars for the teacher to provide kids who forgot snacks. I try and volunteer my time when I can. I chip in for gifts and the like. I can do those things so I do them. Not everyone can and I get that. the idea that there are room parents collecting “dues” is mind boogling. Not every parent is in the financial position that I am. This is public school, the only dues a family has are their taxes, everything else is a bonus if the family has it.

Stop judging people based on what you choose to do. Different people have different priorities and different needs. [/quote]

Not every can, but many can and choose not to which is fine, but don't play the I'm broke game when you have two nicer cars and a huge house with a nanny.  We've never collected.  We ask for donations and if that doesn't happen either the room parent/s pay or teacher pays or it doesn't happen.  OP overspent which is the real issue and is now demanding more money, which isn't ok.  I don't care if no one donates but I do care when people are smug about it when their kids enjoy it and they can afford it and its only 2-3 parties a year.  The worst are people who can afford it but expect others to do it all, including those snacks you and I provide as we don't want to see their kids going without.  I'd far rather pay for the entire party if parents were chipping in supplies and snacks for the rest of the year.  I easily spend a few hundred on classroom stuff per classroom, but its a lot cheaper than private and if you've ever been to the parties, you will see the kids really enjoy them.  For some kids, its the only parties they are invited to.[/quote]

I can hear your violin playing all the way in NY where I'm on a work trip.  Seriously, read your post out loud to someone and ask them to tell you how you sound.  You gripe about parents who don't contribute (how on earth are these people being smug about that?!?) but then want people to pat you on the back for buying their children snacks so they don't have to sit alone in a corner.  And the kids whose only parties are the classroom parties?  Your post makes it clear that you don't really give a shit about those kids.  You are so transparent it's shocking.[/quote]

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