We had a specific dollar amount to spend and most of it went to a slide and rock wall. We had enough left that we could afford to purchase a few balls and jump ropes. Nothing major but shoot there is only 10 weeks of school left. The teacher involved emailed me today and said that since we didnt have the entire original amount to spend, she didnt want any money.
WHATEVER
We are getting a new Principal at that school next year and I hope that we can improve our parent-teacher relationship then.

When we used to buy things like this for the school, they often made the purchase/selection and themselves and we just "wrote the check". We were quite fine with that - less work for us and they got exactly what they wanted.

We always went into with a clear understanding that the PTO was providing X dollars for playground toys (or whatever) and they'd give us a copy of the receipt when it came in. Most importantly - our principal always gave us full credit for furnishing the supplies.

How the purchase was made was incidental,at least to us.

[ 03-14-2006, 01:33 PM: Message edited by: JHB ]

Thanks for all of your help with this. Now it seems that the school doesn't want our help with this. I'm getting the feeling they want us to just write them a check rather than purchase the equipment. Just another PTO headache!

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I shop at Target when I have the extra 10% off discount. I find if I shop carefully I can get a lot of items on sale. Plus by using my Target card the school gets money through thier incentive program. I can get very high quality items and can pick and choose so I can get footballs, basketballs, etc. of variuos sizes to meet the kids different size requirements.

I think the company we use is called Gopher. They send us a few catalogs a year. It is very high quality merchandise and we have never had any trouble with them.