On a recent Thursday in Boca Raton, Fla., 40 senior citizens dined on grilled salmon and brownies, sipped coffee and discussed their grandchildren.
It was a fundraising event—for the private school their grandchildren attend 1,000 miles away in Rockville, Md. The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, where kindergarten tuition starts at $28,290, flew its head of school, Rabbi Mitchel Malkus, down to the sunshine state for the dinner. “We thought it’s just a nice touch to go where they are,” said Rabbi Malkus.
The ability of schools to raise $ off the books is amazing - untracked that I know, PTO/PTA organizations take in Billions from various fundraisers. Additionally districts count on this feature to subsidize the funding.
17000 school districts in US. 60 million students.The best-most effective most efficient-are the smaller districts. Fully 50%of all students are in the largest 100 districts, run by academics.This is where all the problems are.
Schools have no business involving kids in politics, unless u r trying to indoctrinate children.
In other words, a Growing Number of Schools have literally been reduced to sending kids out begging for school money like a band of orphaned vagrants in a Dickens novel, all to spare lawmakers the pain of having to provide funds via *gasp* taxation.
Well with the money to 'donate' to good private schools. Actually, it's more of an investment.
That's what Grandmas are for, partly!❤🤗
$30k for kindergarten? These people have more money than sense.
This is nothing new. All thru public school my kids had fundraisers that targeted family members, friends & neighbors to contribute.