Here are some messages I wrote to my favorite message board, then pasted here:
Are School fund raisers not the biggest bunch of bullshit ever?
As soon as my 11 year old daughter's middle school started in early Sept, she got sent home with $30 books of 2-for-1 cupons for various local businesses , 95% of we'd never go to anyway and are no where near us. We bought one. Plus the high school girl across our back fence didn't know my daughter's school was selling the same thing, so she asked us to buy one and we did, because we're suckers, and buying the neighbor kids fund raising crap is one of the few good neighbor-type thing we ever, ever do.
Then 2 weeks later my daughter's school sent her home with a catalogue of overpriced crap including some pretty reasonably priced magazine subscriptions. So we subscribed to $70 worth of magazines. And to make matters's worse, this 3-week sales period has 3 different official turn-in events, at which the kids can win something different if they've made any sales during that week, so she's under pressure to sell things not just one big time, but 3 little times. So I brought her over priced crap catalogue in to work . It's in the break room. Everyone looks thought it and says wow what a bunch of over priced crap.
That same week, my 6 year old son also brought home a similar catalogue, that includes frozen foods like frozen pizzas. To give him equal time, we'll order stuff from him the day before his dead line like we normally do, and I'll bring his over priced crap magazine to to work for eveyone to laugh at next week.
I did used to sell Camp Fire Mints from door to door every single year of my childhood, back when a 10 year old could go door to door. But I don't remember being sent out to fund raise for my local neighborhood school like a damn street orphan, several times a year.
Yes that is exactly the case.
A professional motivational speaker comes to give a presentation to all the children at a manditory assembly and tells them all how wonderful it is to be a sales person and shows them a slide show of all the prizes they can win if they sell enough.
And that is a good point that this was all in the same month we had to buy their school supplies and clothes. The $30 cupon books came home on one of the first days of school.
And this is the municipal school, not a privately funded school.
And if they make the big mistake of joining the school band or gymnastics or something, then THAT organization makes the kids sell more stuff , for trips or uniforms or something.
You're right I should have said, not this year. I'll just buy you the water pistol or the koosh-ball you would have won, for 50 cents at the drug store down the street. Maybe that will be my spring fund raiser attitude.
And classroom party money.
And field trip money.
And $15 for a PE uniform.
$10 Scouts dues plus another $9 for upcoming hayride.
And of course both schools had to take school pictures immediately (appx $20 each)
Not to mention lunch money.
Free school is bankrupting me.
We even had to send boxes of Kleenex.
Are School fund raisers not the biggest bunch of bullshit ever?
As soon as my 11 year old daughter's middle school started in early Sept, she got sent home with $30 books of 2-for-1 cupons for various local businesses , 95% of we'd never go to anyway and are no where near us. We bought one. Plus the high school girl across our back fence didn't know my daughter's school was selling the same thing, so she asked us to buy one and we did, because we're suckers, and buying the neighbor kids fund raising crap is one of the few good neighbor-type thing we ever, ever do.
Then 2 weeks later my daughter's school sent her home with a catalogue of overpriced crap including some pretty reasonably priced magazine subscriptions. So we subscribed to $70 worth of magazines. And to make matters's worse, this 3-week sales period has 3 different official turn-in events, at which the kids can win something different if they've made any sales during that week, so she's under pressure to sell things not just one big time, but 3 little times. So I brought her over priced crap catalogue in to work . It's in the break room. Everyone looks thought it and says wow what a bunch of over priced crap.
That same week, my 6 year old son also brought home a similar catalogue, that includes frozen foods like frozen pizzas. To give him equal time, we'll order stuff from him the day before his dead line like we normally do, and I'll bring his over priced crap magazine to to work for eveyone to laugh at next week.
I did used to sell Camp Fire Mints from door to door every single year of my childhood, back when a 10 year old could go door to door. But I don't remember being sent out to fund raise for my local neighborhood school like a damn street orphan, several times a year.
Yes that is exactly the case.
A professional motivational speaker comes to give a presentation to all the children at a manditory assembly and tells them all how wonderful it is to be a sales person and shows them a slide show of all the prizes they can win if they sell enough.
And that is a good point that this was all in the same month we had to buy their school supplies and clothes. The $30 cupon books came home on one of the first days of school.
And this is the municipal school, not a privately funded school.
And if they make the big mistake of joining the school band or gymnastics or something, then THAT organization makes the kids sell more stuff , for trips or uniforms or something.
You're right I should have said, not this year. I'll just buy you the water pistol or the koosh-ball you would have won, for 50 cents at the drug store down the street. Maybe that will be my spring fund raiser attitude.
And classroom party money.
And field trip money.
And $15 for a PE uniform.
$10 Scouts dues plus another $9 for upcoming hayride.
And of course both schools had to take school pictures immediately (appx $20 each)
Not to mention lunch money.
Free school is bankrupting me.
We even had to send boxes of Kleenex.
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