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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make no mistake, MCPS talks a big game about equity but they cave a lot to the squeakiest wheels which are wealthy white parents.[/quote]

This is hysterical [NOT], as my children are at a W, and we get ignored by MCPS and the BOE.  They cave to everything for TP/SS.  If we want something done, we have to fund it ourselves, which are fortunate to be able to do.  But it has nothing to do with MCPS caving to us, and everything to do with parents spending money on things that should have been provided.  [/quote]

Please describe the things that MCPS should have provided, that the parents provided instead. [/quote]

I'd like to see the response to this as well. I was PTA president at a non-W/ non-Title I school and there were quite a few things that the county was supposed to provide, and would have provided, had the principal been willing to push hard enough. But MCPS makes it so hard to get certain materials and services that it's easier to just have the PTA/parents fund it so they can get it done quicker and circumvent the system. I'm not saying this is always the case but I saw it happen over and over again at my kids' school. We had a good fundraising program in place so the money wasn't an issue but it's hard to convince the school administration to fight with the central office when the PTA is willing/able to be an ATM. [/quote]

Okay. Can [i]you[/i] describe the items or services that MCPS should have provided to your school, that the PTA did instead? [/quote]

Paper towels, disinfecting wipes, landscaping supplies/mulch/groundskeeping labor. Off the top of my head. 
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My kid is at a FOCUS school in the DCC and the PTA also has to dredge up money for these things. As well as playground balls and after school programs and all sorts of other things that you probably take for granted will be paid for by your PTA or otherwise provided.

MCPS is required to provide certain things to the schools. Unfortunately, "extra" classroom supplies are often not provided and teachers go into their own pockets if the PTA doesn't step in. Ditto some of the other things they see as "extra." Now, this is a problem! But these are not things-- again, unfortunately-- that they are required to provide, and it is not an issue that disproportionately affects wealthier schools.

What is not happening (for the most part) is that things MCPS is [i]actually required to provide[/i] are being provided to poorer schools and not wealthier ones, [i]except where the requirements for different schools differ based on county policy for things like FARMS rates[/i] (e.g., more teachers to keep smaller class sizes).

So poor schools don't get art teachers for free from MCPS, but rich schools have to raise money to pay an art teacher. Poor schools don't get beautiful new desks every 3 years, but rich schools have to raise money for them.

The difference is that, for the things MCPS doesn't have to provide, the poor schools mostly go without. The rich schools have them, but have to pay for them out of pocket.

For the things MCPS does have to provide to all schools, the rich schools are more likely to receive them in a timely manner than the poor schools IME, because of the parents' greater political and economic influence.

For things MCPS has to provide specifically to poor schools, sure, poor schools are more likely to have them. Oh, well.[/quote]

Your post makes zero sense.  PTA's cannot pay for teacher salaries at any school in MCPS.  They can pay for after school activities but all schools can offer that.  No one needs new desks every three years.[/quote]

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