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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a school with a large PTA balance.  Our PTA funds don't go to other schools but we regularly do drives to provide coats, food, funds, holiday gifts, and books to lower income schools working with those schools' PTAs or social workers.  [/quote]

Same. I was on our fundraising group and we raised the most money in any year at our school.  We are not typically known as a high income school. It was frustrating what we can spend the money on and what we couldn’t. There was little we could do to help low income students as PTA rules say funds must benefit all students. It’s more than redistribution of funds, it’s also changing rules on how funds can be spent. We had 100 K in our reserves and could not distribute grocery gift cards to low income families at the holidays. Instead we bought balls for the playground. Ridiculous. [/quote]

That’s because that’s not the purpose of PTAs. If you want to provide food assistance there are other organizations for that. There’s no reason any PTA should be raising as much money as the richest schools in Arlington. What’s the point?[/quote]

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