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In reply to the discussion: NY. poor kids whose parents couldn't afford $10 sat in dark auditorium during carnival day [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)From the linked article:
Principal Joan Monroe tacked up a list of the number of students per class: How many attending, Paid, and How many not attending, Not paid.
On Thursday morning, Monroe used the school loudspeaker to remind teachers to send in a list of kids who did not pay.
While teachers were handed a bag of little stuffed animals to give kids who paid for the carnival...
Frank Chow, president of the parents association that sponsored the carnival, said Monroe insisted that kids whose parents didnt pay could not partake.
The carnival cost about $6,200, including fees to a carnival company, Send in the Clowns, and reaped a $2,000 to $3,000 profit, he added. I wish we just charged parents the cost, not to make extra, Chow said. The profit is earmarked for the pre-K, kindergarten and fifth-grade moving-up parties, he said.
PS 120 families also have paid annual PA dues of $15 per family. That money will be spent on window air-conditioning units, Chow said.
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So this principle targeted the poorest children for public humiliation, money-shaming the kids who couldn't afford to pay, then she profited off the kids who did pay, and also fined all the kid's families personally for extra money supposedly for the maintenance costs of a publicly owned building that is paid for by the taxpayers.
Where's the investigation???