I have recently found myself coming under fire as leader of our PTO, and I am unsure as how to handle this situation. We are a small school district of 500. The High School is on one side of town, the Elem is on the other.
The PTO has always had it's meetings at the elem, and all of the participation, and fundraising have been through the elem. students. Then suddenly after an extremely successful year fundraising and parental participation the HS wants in on the goodies.

I went back to our bylaws, and from what I can tell, when PTA changed to PTO the organization was formed for our district. But after zero participation, from the higher grades, PTO evolved into an elementary organization. Myself, have been involved for 4 years, have never one time heard anything mentioned about doing things for both schools. The focus has only been on improving the elem.

I absolutely have no problem, being open to helping both schools, but I definately will have to see some HS teachers and parents raising money and getting involved before that happens.

Am I wrong here? Should I just let them hand over a want list? We are a poor rural community, and the funds that have been earned have been worked hard for, I just hate to see the little kids doing the work, and the big kids getting the benefit. I also see the side that my children will be in that building eventually, so why not do things for them as well.

I am curious what other schools in this situation do?
Jewelz