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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid attends an MCPS ES that is considered a Focus school.  It's a racially and socioeconomically diverse school.

The local, private Swim Club is holding an event this month.  Popsicles with teachers/staff.  But, you HAVE to be a member or a guest of a member (and pay) to attend.

Swim club memberships cost about $500/family.  Event is not being advertised on our ES website.  Not advertised on the PTA website.  Only posted for members of the Swim Club to see.

What do parents/teachers on here think?  Makes me a little uncomfortable, but maybe I'm overly sensitive because of my own background.  [/quote]

This is confusing to me.  I belong to a "local, private Swim Club" (that happens to cost about $500/year!).  The families that belong to our club must attend twenty or more different public and private elementary, middle and high schools.  I doubt that any one school would have more than twenty kids or so that are members.  We host "back to school" and "end of school year" events every year, but they are never exclusively for students of a specific school.  And teachers and staff from any particular school aren't there unless they happen to be members.

Are you sure something didn't get lost in translation here?  Is this an event only for students of a particular school, and are the teachers and staff from that school really going to be there?  Are you sure this isn't just your typical "hear ye, hear ye, come one, come all, students, teachers and staff, to our annual back to school popsicle party?"[/quote]

The event is definitely being advertised specifically for families from this particular ES.  The motto of the ES is at the top of the flyer.  It is not a general 'back to school' popsicle party.  [/quote]

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