School fundraisers??

[ShaggysGirl]

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Our kids had to start contributing too......we had to send copy paper!!!!!

I started mine this year so we don't have to worry about that anymore...thank God.

If my kid wouldn't be ridiculed for not contributing, I wouldn't. I pay a ridiculous amount in property tax, income tax, state tax, sales tax, tax tax tax....... How about you give me credit for the $5000/year per kid the schools get, and I'll enroll them in private schools.... Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg! Then there are all the stories of graft, mismanagement of funds, fancy trips out of state for "seminars and training" Hm.... Oh yeah, and all the fraud that goes around. I betcha I know why the public school systems are going broke

Sorry, had to vent.

Not to mention the lottery is suppose to help the schools! What is up with that?? I know between taxes and the lottery tickets we buy and I know many people buy them where is the money going? It is total BS.

 

[wombat]

I'll continue to do the girl scout cookie drive, because a lot of our friends and neighbors actually ask when it is coming around again. For the school stuff, I think I'll just write a check! Good idea!

 

[ShaggysGirl]

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OK my girl scout rant coming....lol
Why oh why do they sell them starting at Lent? I buy a bunch and then have to hide them in the freezer till Easter ...

 

[EweSheep]

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OK my girl scout rant coming....lol
Why oh why do they sell them starting at Lent? I buy a bunch and then have to hide them in the freezer till Easter ...

Excuse me for my ignorance but I thought Lent is ONLY for eating fish, no other meat allowed and you certainly can have anything else like sweets!

 

[ShaggysGirl]

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OK my girl scout rant coming....lol
Why oh why do they sell them starting at Lent? I buy a bunch and then have to hide them in the freezer till Easter ...

Excuse me for my ignorance but I thought Lent is ONLY for eating fish, no other meat allowed and you certainly can have anything else like sweets!

Lots of people give up something for the whole 40 days, for many like us it is sweets. I have a friend who gives up TV.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

i have more of an issue with those going door to door trying to sell magazines. i already get all the magazines that i want (1) coming to my house.

many of the magazines they are selling are junk that i can't stand to read anyways. i don't have kids, i don't fuss over my looks, i read the news online when i want to read about things going on. i don't like tons of paper that i can't use to start my woodstove kicking around or having to throw out in the trash when i can't get rid of the parts i don't find useful.

i'm not a big fan of the selling of the wrapping paper and chocolate stuff when they do it combined. but i have been known to buy the over priced gift bags when i've seen the fund raisers of people i know.

i don't mind when they've done the flower bulbs, but that is because i am a gardener and i appreciate that stuff. (i've also had good luck with most of the plants i get from them.)

our work has the policy that the books/brochures are NOT to be circulated, but placed in our lunch room so no one is pressured to buy. and door-to-door selling in our are is almost illegal with all the thefts happening lately from phony peddlers pulling stuff on the elderly.

the only reason they say they fund raise in our area is to use it for field trips.

 

[warmfuzzies]

I have a very bad opinion of School fundraisers. If they already get $4000- 5000 per kid, and twice that for kids labeled 'special needs', why do they need more?

Why do they put the burden on the kids to sell, sell,sell as much as they can? Why is it 'voluntary' but you are looked down on if you dont do it, and do it the best. Why is fundraising a compitition to make the most money, thats not a very good example.

If I can give my kids a top-notch education for less then $200 a year each, why can they not do even an average job for $4000 a year?

 

[wombat]

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OK my girl scout rant coming....lol
Why oh why do they sell them starting at Lent? I buy a bunch and then have to hide them in the freezer till Easter ...

I think it depends on where you are. I believe that they run drives year round, there's no way they could facilitate all those drives nationwide at the same time.

Our drive starts this Friday this time around. Beats getting tapped to do a drive the week after Haloween when everyone's up to their

in left over candy! Ours have not been at the same time each year, but they've always been in the fall.

 

[WriterofWords]

The money public schools get for each student is strictly for educational purposes, providing books, library materials, computer labs, etc. The funraising money goes for fun/educational stuff like field trips, bringing story tellers and authors to the schools, putting on talent shows, Geography bees, Battle of the Books, Science Fairs, Literary Festivals, other things like that. If you don't want those at your schools then don't support the fund raisers, it's your own choice, it's a free country, exercise your right not to open your wallet.

 

[wombat]

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I'd still rather write a check to the school for $50 than buy $20 worth of crap from some marketing firm and have the school see $2-$5 of that. Just my opinion ... though I am a sucker for the wrapping paper.

I used to think that the kids learned from doing some of the work to earn the support for their activities, but as the OP pointed out, getting all these kids hopes up with these contests is really, really sad. That is what turns me off about these drives these days.