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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going back to the original question, however: is only 55% of the class donates, yet they all consume, how is this fair?  Pizza or cupcakes, whatever the budget... if your child is benefiting from the class funds and you don't contribute, is that fair?  Put financial hardship aside. We all understand that.  But I doubt half the class in OP's case is under that circumstance.[/quote]

So you do realize that the parents whose children are at the school have also contributed unevenly to the cost of running the school?  For example, parents in the highest tax bracket pay/contribute more, and those in the lowest pay less, or nothing at all?  Then there's all the parents who pay but send their kids to private school (where, by the way, you have the same issue because of financial aid).  The fact that you are bothered by which parents have contributed to a stupid class party and the fact that some parents haven't paid their $25 but their kid nonetheless gets to have a cookie means you have some serious issues.

- room mom[/quote]

This isn't true at all.  And private school is not even relevant.  You ask for donations or money and families choose if they give or don't give.  I find the lower income families far more generous than the higher income families.  It really depends on the school and actual class.  Some year we have very generous parents and other years we don't. Last year we had three generous parents which is how we started doing pizza as one asked/volunteered to buy and bought it for all the parties.  Other years we can barely get plates and napkins and as a room parent I pay.  You shouldn't sign up to be a room parent if you are going to complain you have to treat all the kids the same even if they have rich stingy/selfish parents.[/quote]

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