The Scottsdale (Non)Parent Council | Part II.

Surviving since the 70s on the coerced donations from schools and PTOs, this little org has an outsized influence…

In Part I we got our first look at the SPC, a civic organization formed in the late 70s when women like my mother were holding Tupperware parties and watching Dallas on TV. At the time, the population of Scottsdale was under 90,000. Now it’s over 250,000 - and in my view, the SPC, as an institution, is simply not designed to represent a majority of the …