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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I just read the post where someone was recommending splitting up the PTA funds across all schools.[/b]  Funny.  Already we pay higher income and property taxes which funds MCPS programs across the county.  And now a PTA redistribution?? Ain't gonna happen. [/quote]

You might pay higher income taxes. You don't pay higher property taxes - everyone pays the same rate. If you pay [i]more[/i] property taxes, it's because the value of your property is higher.

Also, taxes aren't user fees. You're not entitled to more school services based on paying more taxes.[/quote]

What does PTA fund have to do with these taxes?
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What does the PTA fund have to do with boundary decisions?[/quote]

Look at the bold text. That is where this started. You may want to ask this question to whoever posted "recommending splitting up the PTA funds across all schools".[/quote]

I believe it was in response to what kind of “by-products” that MCPS is hoping to create through the diversity initiative of bussing:

Anonymous wrote:
Well, one benefit would be that at least some low-income kids would have access to the crazy 6-digit amounts that rich schools’ PTAs raise every year for “enrichment.” Lower and middle income schools are busy cutting Box Tops to get a few hundred dollars while the rich schools are pulling in obscene amounts to be used for new technology, books, field trips, after-school activities. This is not a case of loving your children more or valuing education more. Normal people just can’t cut $1000 checks for the PTA.

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Yes, I wrote that. DCUM is a fun-house mirror sometimes. Someone asked what the benefits might be to reducing the yawning income inequality of the schools, and I gave one benefit. Then, in this paranoid game of telephone, it turned into "MCPS is recommending stealing our PTA's money!"
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