Anonymous
02/07/2021 09:02
Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Potentially stupid question- are PAs at charter schools not allowed to raise $$ for the school?
They are and they do. ITS parents don't even fundraise that hard and they raise over $100,000 per year.
That’s impressive. What does the $$ go toward? Does the PA get to choose?
Anonymous
02/07/2021 08:31
Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:Potentially stupid question- are PAs at charter schools not allowed to raise $$ for the school?
They are and they do. ITS parents don't even fundraise that hard and they raise over $100,000 per year.
Anonymous
02/07/2021 08:04
Subject: Re:Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Potentially stupid question- are PAs at charter schools not allowed to raise $$ for the school?
Anonymous
02/07/2021 06:36
Subject: Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Sheesh, don't your admins answer parents' questions? Sounds like they don't. Charter communities need to win the right to organize PTAs bigtime.
Why do you think charters can’t have PTOs? Many do. I think some opt to not pay the fees to belong to the national PTA organization, but have legally registered PTOs nonetheless.
Aren't charters restricted to PAs (parent associations). Serious question.
Ann S, head of YY's PA is excellent. But she shouldn't have to be doing the work of the admins. For example, she sent a very informative email called "Things every YY parent should know" about the hybrid plan. It's clear that lots of parents did not know, and the admins didn't tell us
Yes, but it's just a PA, not a parent-teacher organization with serious fund-raising capacity, or the ability to shape school policy, like you see in a dozen DCPS programs. There are half a dozen DCPS PTAs raising more than 250K these days. Admins at these schools generally bend over backwards to avoid alienating parents bringing in that kind of dough. This is one reason we left a charter for a Capitol Hill ES where the PTA raises over 400K annually. We didn't care for the way admins often treated parents at the charter.
Anonymous
02/06/2021 22:23
Subject: Anyone pulling their kid from YY for this hybrid fiasco
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Sheesh, don't your admins answer parents' questions? Sounds like they don't. Charter communities need to win the right to organize PTAs bigtime.
Why do you think charters can’t have PTOs? Many do. I think some opt to not pay the fees to belong to the national PTA organization, but have legally registered PTOs nonetheless.
Aren't charters restricted to PAs (parent associations). Serious question.
Ann S, head of YY's PA is excellent. But she shouldn't have to be doing the work of the admins. For example, she sent a very informative email called "Things every YY parent should know" about the hybrid plan. It's clear that lots of parents did not know, and the admins didn't tell us