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[quote=Anonymous]The school required a $100 supply fee per student instead of having kids bring in their own supplies from a list.  It was $60 the first year, which was the send year of the school, and then it went up to $100 the second and third years.  I'm not sure how this hasn't been called out until now, but it is not a legitimate way to raise funds.  For that matter, it is not technically acceptable to require students to bring in ANY supplies.  
It is explicitly spelled out that you can't solicit "required" fees for any public education program.  
Up until this point, the PA has contributed thousands of hours worth of contributed time and services, and (as a PP noted) well over a hundred thousand dollars in donations over 2 years.  They are trying to take over the fees because educating kids well is expensive.  (Insert useless comments now about how other schools with foreign languages do it without fees, then refer back to PP comment about the high cost of Chinese materials)[/quote]

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