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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you talking about? We raise about $30k a year and it all goes to classroom needs, kid focused weekend events, like $500 a year goes to pizza for pta meetings (open to all of the PTA members and kids), activity busses etc. 
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WTH? I've been active at every single school my kids attended. We never wasted money providing pizza/food etc for a pta meeting. What a waste of money. [/quote]

Spending $500 is chump change to secure $30K in donations. How much money did the PTA leaders themselves donate? In most cases the people doing the work are almost always the biggest donors. This $500 is nothing.[/quote]

You are unwittingly demonstrating exactly why the rich PTAs are repellant to a lot of us. It is a school. A collective. Every kid and parent is equal. No parent should feel they are modeled important or special because they are the biggest donor and biggest PTA socialite. It actively detracts from the public nature of the school. [/quote]

What exactly is stopping you from going to the meetings or thank you breakfast? Stop with the sad sack excuses. You're not involved and resent the people who are. Just don't donate you will still reap the benefits of those more generous[/quote]

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