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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher in a Bethesda school and we absolutely do not need that money from the PTA in the beginning of the year. We've actually asked the PTA if they would move funds to other schools instead and they refuse to do so. We have more than we need, meanwhile so many other schools do not. Schools in the same district should not be this unbalanced. I can't believe what I'm reading in the majority of this thread. People with a lot of money seem to be really unhinged, uneducated, and unsympathetic to people residing in the same county as you. Shame on you. Like an above poster said, some of you are just completely missing the point and want to harp on the "life's unfair!" bs. I cannot wait to retire. So tired of this entire community. It is beyond toxic. [/quote]

How do you get $ at the beginning of the year? Our PTA did away with gift cards years ago due to MCPS rules if I remember correctly. Teachers submit receipts for reimbursement up to a certain amount. Plenty of teachers don't submit receipts, and I am at a lower resourced school.

I think it is fine to tell your PTA board that teachers don't need money for supplies, but, I don't think it is appropriate to try and dictate that the money be sent to other schools. The money wasn't collected for that purpose, and they would likely need a membership vote to change the budget and to spend money that way.  MCPS has a $3 billion budget yet it is the job of your school's parents to pay for basic supplies at other schools? GTFO.[/quote]

It's a nice thing to do to help other schools.  We've reached out to other PTA's and got no response for help even though they advertise a way to request help on their website.  Those of us with schools without a lot of PTA/PTO funds find other ways to make it work.  It's funny the schools with more money are the ones complaing the most.  [/quote]

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