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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year the room parent asked for $45 per child (Kindergarten) for a teacher’s class gift. That’s more than I spend on my DH for Christmas, but I Venmo’d anyway.[/quote]yep, they are asking now for between $40-$50 per child[/quote]

In Bethesda we’re asked to donate $75/child to class funds. They also request over $100 in pta donations at the beginning of the year. [/quote]

Why in Earth would we need to donate more when we just raised $25k? WTAF is going on at our MCPS schools? PTA needs to get their sh*t together and stop catering week long lunches for teachers, and instead give them a stipend![/quote]

Please, please don't donate anymore to your school PTA.  These women are almost universally a PITA to everyone, including the school staff.  They are often clueless about running any kind of organization, totally irresponsible, and from time to time lose the money you have donated.  It's time we got these Karens out of our schools.  I know there are exceptions out there, but as an organization, PTA's in public schools run to corruption, pettiness, and bullying - not every board, not every person, but in time it will get there.  Then a new board will come and it might be ok for a while, and then the whole nasty cycle will start again.  And even when they aren't causing drama, they are constantly pressuring the admin to make choices that benefit their own children - overwhelmingly white and upper middle class - often at the expense of others.  Teachers and administrators and other parents have to pretend to think they are wonderful, but believe me, it's almost always pretending.  We are afraid of them, too.[/quote]

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