It's hard to know the answer to that specifically, but in general, PTOs and PTAs do help fund things like what you've described. Whether your group should or will depends on what you decide as a group, what you've budgeted for teachers/classrooms, possibly your bylaws, etc.
- Liz L
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Yep. Plus enabling inequities across schools. A kids public educational experience shouldn’t be based on where they live and their community’s ability to raise private funds.
PTAs should not be supplying things that should be met with public funds. PTAs can advocate for it by demanding their legislators and school board to not be ignorant to chronic budget shortfalls.
Imagine all that time parents spent on chocolate fundraising and instead directing that time advocating to those who hold the purse strings to public education funding. If every single parent demanded their legislators to give kids what they need in school, we will no longer have fundraisers.
- ParentAtSchool
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