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[quote=Anonymous]Wealthier PTAs can afford to give grants to cover teachers who sponsor extracurriculars.  Some pandemic funding that had provided a nice bump for that kind of thing fell off a cliff this year.  Also, even if a parent runs a club/activity, there typically still needs to be a staff sponsor.

Some folks are oblivious to this or other realities, thinking that funding comes from central, that teachers have all this extra time to donate (though some very generous ones do), or that kids tend to come up with academic club ideas themselves, instead of those being more family driven, with awareness, itself, tending to come from prior years' implementations.

There *are* kids at places without Mathcounts who would be interested, but without all *schools* making academic extracurriculars a priority (some don't even make them suggestions for what *could* be an option to ascertain interest), it's a chicken and egg thing, in addition to a family resource thing, and they're left out in the cold.  Those suggesting they don't exist or somehow should be fine with less are willfully ignorant or engaging in schadenfreude.[/quote]

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