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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DEI director here. If the school says the event is open to all, believe them. If it was for a specific community within the school, they would say so. [/quote]

I fully support DEI but the equity part I think can be unrealistic at times and maybe not fair as once we all start comparing our advantages and disadvantages it can get messy.

For example, school needs parents to pay and host an event for all parents in a grade. One parent wants to be listed as a host on the invitation but they express they can not pay what the others are paying. Thoughts on this? I think it is unfair and all should pay equally or just not be listed as a host. Thoughts?[/quote]

Not the PP - but from what I've seen at our (3) schools - the school doesn't structure events where a "subset of parents" pay to host a school sanctioned event and then put their names on the invitation.

Examples: Families offer to use their home to host an event but the school pays for it. Families offer to host a pot-luck event  - where all participating families bring food. Or, the school hosts the event at school.  In cases where there are student events (trips) that parents are paying a fee, the school provides support for students receiving aid. [/quote]

The point being - there is genuine thought put into "how" the school operates and how parent/student events are run so that they are practicing the "equitable" part of DEI[/quote]

That is not real life and you are setting these kids up for a big disappointment when they get into the real world. I support DEI but some of it gets taken too far. If parents want a nice party (and many do) they are going to have it. The other option that I have seen is when schools try to dictate too much those parents STILL have their parties but then what happens is they do not invite all. So the former option is better in my opinion.[/quote]

Parents can still have a nice party.....I never said they don't.  Some are all inclusive, some are not. That's life. We can all choose how we behave and how inclusive/exclusive we are.

I said that there our schools don't use parents to host school sanctioned events where they rely on few parents to pony up....and then end up with one of those co-parents backing out financially. One school used to do this and then moved to only having parties that the school funded.  It would be a single family (not groups of parents) hosting.  Obviously, those parents could spend additional money of their own....but there's no issue of "the x family was listed here and paid nothing" (which honestly all sounds like petty behavior anyway)

If you choose to work in a group to host a party (in any scenario) - you just have to deal with whatever your group members throw at you.  If you don't like it, don't work with that person again.  If you want to leave someone out of your hosting group who can donate their time but not money - that's your choice to make. (I personally would let them help if they are a good team member who is genuinely contributing in other ways).[/quote]

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