Columnist Lori Helms of The Huntersville Herald takes a stand over the basic administrative and custodial supplies CMS parents are supposed to cart to their kids’ schools so that CMS does not have to:
This school year, my son will be showing up with the supplies he needs for himself, not what CMS wants me to provide for them. Ha! Take that! I will continue to give willingly and generously of my time and limited talents to his classmates, his teacher and his school, but I will no longer fall victim to the district’s poor-mouth pleas. I’ve seen what they will and won’t do with their checkbook, and I refuse to pad their bank balance any more than I already have.
This CMS practice is part of what I call its Stealth Equity plan. There were official Equity, Equity Plus, and Equity Plus II schemes that routed additional funds to low-performing schools, but which now have gone underground as CMS tries to argue that even more money is what will fix those schools for sure.
The flip side of Equity Plus/II is giving high-performing schools only basic operational funds and telling PTAs and parents to pay the rest. And of course they do it.
Call it CMS cynical manipulation trick #852.
