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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having the principal host a sleepover at the school allows preferential access to a public good (and a public resource) by the wealthy.  It also sends a terrible message to the kids: rich families can curry favor and get extra social access to the principal, receive perks etc. Parking spaces , even in the teachers' lot, are still public property. If you auction off public property, there are rules governing how that is done, and the auction generally must be open to the general public, not just school parents.

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You sound like a frustrated former law associate turned SAHM.  This is school auction 101, not a civil rights suit.  Get perspective, or perhaps a hobby for your energies.  There's always the garden club.[/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

Not well said. The way it was said was just plain rude, ad hominem vitriol that undermined the point she was trying to make.[/quote]

School auctions all over the country auction off the resources they have to raise money to support the school.  Whether it is a sleepover in the the school, principal for a day, a parking space or a case of wine donated by families, none of this was invented at WOTP schools.  There is a ridiculous outrage that this is somehow evidence of an inhospitable social climate with a school or unlawful.  As the PP noted, this is school auctions 101.[/quote]

Well, I think we all know where you fall on the JKLM food chain, auction committee queen bee mom lady.  Thanks for clearing that up.

I've been to school auctions in multiple states that have no such items in the catalogue. Instead, items are all goods and services donated by private individuals (pies, a week in my Rome apartment) or by businesses (one week at Calleva camp; a $20 manicure).

Both public and private schools are choosing to send a message when they sell their own property to the highest bidder. I know a number of NWDC privates do the parking / carpool line thing.   Ours does not. [/quote]

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