Anonymous wrote:This thread is stupid. There will never be a "central pool" of PTA funds. Whomever is pushing this is most likely trying to figure out how to "get rich quick". Ignore them.

There shouldn't be pooled money but MCCPTA can do more to work with the lower income PTA's and help them financially as well.

This thread is stupid. There will never be a "central pool" of PTA funds. Whomever is pushing this is most likely trying to figure out how to "get rich quick". Ignore them.

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, the fairest thing that has any chance of happening would be for MCCPTA (or some other central organization, I guess, if there's some problem with MCCPTA, although I don't understand what the problem is) to either increase its dues amount significantly (with an exemption for PTAs under a certain budget) and redistribute that to schools based on need, or for school PTAs to contribute some set percentage of their budget to a central pool that's redistributed based on need.

Honestly it really ought to be one central fund countywide, but most parents are too selfish to contribute to something like that and would scream bloody murder at the idea that they can't use their money to contribute to their kid's school to give them an extra leg up. So let them contribute to their own school knowing that, say, half of it will actually benefit the school, while at least having a *little* less of this ridiculous "the richer schools that need the least and are already the most desirable for teachers get lots of extra from their PTAs, and the poorer schools that need the most and are the least desirable for teachers get nothing from their PTAs" situation...

Sorry- you mean like our *tax payer dollars* which are funded county wide?

Truth is that poor schools get more money already (and are also likely in places with older schools that need refurbished). And then they also need more money to make up the gap between what kids bring in and what’s needed.

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Anonymous wrote:It is really sad that some teachers have spend so much of their own money on the classrooms.

Well they shouldn't. MCPS reimburses them for all materials that support the curriculum.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Give me an example of where an MCPS teacher wasn't provided by their school/MCPS the materials/supplies they need for the curriculum.

MCPS teacher here. Teachers/departments are required to purchase from the warehouse or a limited set of businesses. Some schools encourage ways around this. My current school doesn’t allow me to use anything off the bid list. So, for my specialized curriculum I do have to buy some things on my own. Theoretically, I can get reimbursed but the paperwork is annoying/burdensome. If I pay tax, it doesn’t get reimbursed, so I have to use my school tax free card which needs to registered on a business system so that business doesn’t get in trouble with MD. Classroom decorations are highly encouraged but never provided or reimbursed. Snacks/treats/prizes never reimbursed even though staff are encouraged to use them to motivate struggling students. I am pretty cheap but end up spending at least a few hundred dollars every year.

My current program is unique to my school so loads of items are not on the bid list. Huge pain in the ass to get the supplies I need to do what I am supposed to do. Even for normal teachers whenever they update the curriculum it doesn’t mean they updated the bidlist/warehouse list so schools end up scrambling to figure out ways to do the activities. A huge problem in science courses and one of the reasons some teachers hate hands on activities now.

Anonymous wrote:I wish there were educational equity. It's wrong that accelerated classes are offered at wealthy schools, but equally advanced students at others often lack access to those same opportunities.

i understand that this is why other school districts are shutting down AP classes. equity.

The W schools are basically public funded private schools. It’s been that way for at least 20 years.

I wish there were educational equity. It's wrong that accelerated classes are offered at wealthy schools, but equally advanced students at others often lack access to those same opportunities.

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, the fairest thing that has any chance of happening would be for MCCPTA (or some other central organization, I guess, if there's some problem with MCCPTA, although I don't understand what the problem is) to either increase its dues amount significantly (with an exemption for PTAs under a certain budget) and redistribute that to schools based on need, or for school PTAs to contribute some set percentage of their budget to a central pool that's redistributed based on need.

Honestly it really ought to be one central fund countywide, but most parents are too selfish to contribute to something like that and would scream bloody murder at the idea that they can't use their money to contribute to their kid's school to give them an extra leg up. So let them contribute to their own school knowing that, say, half of it will actually benefit the school, while at least having a *little* less of this ridiculous "the richer schools that need the least and are already the most desirable for teachers get lots of extra from their PTAs, and the poorer schools that need the most and are the least desirable for teachers get nothing from their PTAs" situation...

Question is what happens to all the money MCCPTA gets and why don't they use some of that money to help some of the schools.

Realistically, the fairest thing that has any chance of happening would be for MCCPTA (or some other central organization, I guess, if there's some problem with MCCPTA, although I don't understand what the problem is) to either increase its dues amount significantly (with an exemption for PTAs under a certain budget) and redistribute that to schools based on need, or for school PTAs to contribute some set percentage of their budget to a central pool that's redistributed based on need.

Honestly it really ought to be one central fund countywide, but most parents are too selfish to contribute to something like that and would scream bloody murder at the idea that they can't use their money to contribute to their kid's school to give them an extra leg up. So let them contribute to their own school knowing that, say, half of it will actually benefit the school, while at least having a *little* less of this ridiculous "the richer schools that need the least and are already the most desirable for teachers get lots of extra from their PTAs, and the poorer schools that need the most and are the least desirable for teachers get nothing from their PTAs" situation...

Give me an example of where an MCPS teacher wasn't provided by their school/MCPS the materials/supplies they need for the curriculum.

Am a para in a school (in a W cluster), that has several new teachers. NONE were given any funds for materials and all have spent hundreds, some over a thousand, of theirnown money already, just to get their classrooms ready before school started. No, they won't be reimbursed

FYI, typing on my break.

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Anonymous wrote:It is really sad that some teachers have spend so much of their own money on the classrooms.

Well they shouldn't. MCPS reimburses them for all materials that support the curriculum.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Give me an example of where an MCPS teacher wasn't provided by their school/MCPS the materials/supplies they need for the curriculum.

Just yesterday, I was in MS English where the class assignment called for using index cards. There were no index cards at school, so the teacher brought in a pack.

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Anonymous wrote:It is really sad that some teachers have spend so much of their own money on the classrooms.

Well they shouldn't. MCPS reimburses them for all materials that support the curriculum.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Give me an example of where an MCPS teacher wasn't provided by their school/MCPS the materials/supplies they need for the curriculum.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of truly pathetic individuals. Brand new article out today, "(Teachers) are not going to the schools that are the most disadvantaged," said Chad Aldeman, policy director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. "The same schools that were struggling in 2019 are struggling even worse in 2022."

And here some of you are stating the OP is a whiner and all these teachers should just suck it up because they didn't find jobs in Potomac and you wonder why teachers are leaving. The entire point was MCPS is all about equity (even if you don't like it, that is what they claim to be about), yet they don't even make it equitable for their employees. In this case, yes, teachers should be provided with equal compensation for classroom supplies. This isn't hard. It really does show MoCo's true colors-we are filled with terrible people.

There is no such thing as equity in our world.

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Anonymous wrote:It is really sad that some teachers have spend so much of their own money on the classrooms.

Well they shouldn't. MCPS reimburses them for all materials that support the curriculum.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

This thread is full of truly pathetic individuals. Brand new article out today, "(Teachers) are not going to the schools that are the most disadvantaged," said Chad Aldeman, policy director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. "The same schools that were struggling in 2019 are struggling even worse in 2022."

And here some of you are stating the OP is a whiner and all these teachers should just suck it up because they didn't find jobs in Potomac and you wonder why teachers are leaving. The entire point was MCPS is all about equity (even if you don't like it, that is what they claim to be about), yet they don't even make it equitable for their employees. In this case, yes, teachers should be provided with equal compensation for classroom supplies. This isn't hard. It really does show MoCo's true colors-we are filled with terrible people.