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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Just because they don't doesn't mean they can't. I honestly don't know if charter schools fundraise either but they can. In both cases it just requires an administrator or teacher to oversee the fundraising efforts.
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You say that like it’s easy to find a teacher running a fundraiser. Who is going to end up planning the entire event? It’ll be tons of hours of work- hours that teachers don’t have because that’ll be on top of teaching 3 x 38 students, doing an extracurricular, and being part of a committee.
It could act as a committee item, but it leads to problem #2: fundraisers are an equity issue as GGG points out it. Schools in the SW will raise way more money than schools in the NE. Having worked in both quadrants, I can say even small scale parent involvement initiatives, such as parent council, reveal massive wealth gaps. A large public system like the CBE cannot be seen as endorsing initiatives that lead to such large inequitable outcomes.