salaries & other expenses? Our brownie & cupcake money are ending up in Washington D.C.. via teachers' salaries paying into unions. From there it ends up in lobbyists & politicians campaign funds and pockets. This seems disturbing to me.
Our school board has very strict rules over fund raising for separate activities, we are mandated to sell only booster club goods at events and raise money under their umbrella, then they turn around and are kind enough to give us monies for refs & supplement budget cuts, after we've also paid various fees when we signed up. No outside monies and few grants are considered. It's strange and borderline secretive from what I've seen.
No one wants to tell me why certain fund raisers I, and others, offered 3 months ago were flatly rejected with no explanation, but now, for example, my child's team is scrambling to raise over $1,000 in a very poor economy, after x-mas. We've been mandated to sell $15 cookie dough and $10 chap stick, along with hundred of other schools, where the majority of the profit leaves this very low economic area, and lands in the catalog company's pockets. These types of fund raisers didn't bring in enough last fall, now many programs are in trouble mid-season.
Are they drying up the funds by allocating them elsewhere & crying poor so they can get even more activity fees out of us now that we've invested and committed to teams & bands, etc? We already paid extra fees at the outset. I am suspicious that it was used elsewhere, but I can't find evidence in the public budget that is published.
Was wondering how it works elsewhere or if someone on a school board or perhaps a public high school sports director might read this and enlighten me. Am I missing something here or is this unusual? They refuse to allow us to do any significant fund raising, but now we parents are being called into meetings to "prepare" for next years drastic budget cuts and to fund raise more for the"shortfalls" of the current activity season.
Is it that I live in an area where the dumber are trying to educate the dumb? I'm used to better quality schools and a bit more intelligence from where I've lived before in this world. Had to make tough financial choices for the kids sake, and we took a big slide, so I just wonder if I've managed to move into an unusual area of poor intelligence. Not trying to be mean here - pockets of poverty produce areas of ignorance. It happens.
Observations, facts & comments welcome. I'm not trying to "take sides" or offend anyone here. Not fond of unions, good teachers don't get paid enough & you can't get rid of bad ones. Teachers work too hard to send their money off to D.C. But that is a different issue. Sometimes I get responses from offended teachers - when I ask education questions - please don't take it that way.
Our school board has very strict rules over fund raising for separate activities, we are mandated to sell only booster club goods at events and raise money under their umbrella, then they turn around and are kind enough to give us monies for refs & supplement budget cuts, after we've also paid various fees when we signed up. No outside monies and few grants are considered. It's strange and borderline secretive from what I've seen.
No one wants to tell me why certain fund raisers I, and others, offered 3 months ago were flatly rejected with no explanation, but now, for example, my child's team is scrambling to raise over $1,000 in a very poor economy, after x-mas. We've been mandated to sell $15 cookie dough and $10 chap stick, along with hundred of other schools, where the majority of the profit leaves this very low economic area, and lands in the catalog company's pockets. These types of fund raisers didn't bring in enough last fall, now many programs are in trouble mid-season.
Are they drying up the funds by allocating them elsewhere & crying poor so they can get even more activity fees out of us now that we've invested and committed to teams & bands, etc? We already paid extra fees at the outset. I am suspicious that it was used elsewhere, but I can't find evidence in the public budget that is published.
Was wondering how it works elsewhere or if someone on a school board or perhaps a public high school sports director might read this and enlighten me. Am I missing something here or is this unusual? They refuse to allow us to do any significant fund raising, but now we parents are being called into meetings to "prepare" for next years drastic budget cuts and to fund raise more for the"shortfalls" of the current activity season.
Is it that I live in an area where the dumber are trying to educate the dumb? I'm used to better quality schools and a bit more intelligence from where I've lived before in this world. Had to make tough financial choices for the kids sake, and we took a big slide, so I just wonder if I've managed to move into an unusual area of poor intelligence. Not trying to be mean here - pockets of poverty produce areas of ignorance. It happens.
Observations, facts & comments welcome. I'm not trying to "take sides" or offend anyone here. Not fond of unions, good teachers don't get paid enough & you can't get rid of bad ones. Teachers work too hard to send their money off to D.C. But that is a different issue. Sometimes I get responses from offended teachers - when I ask education questions - please don't take it that way.