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My 6 year old just came home from Kindergarten and told me he HAS to do the fundraiser. He HAS to go next door and ask our neighbors to buy some cookie dough. He also needs to sell to 10 people. I told him I would ask his grandparents if they wanted to look at it. He was almost in tears because that wasn't 10 people.

This rubs me the wrong way. I understand the need for a fundraiser. But this is the 3rd one this year. We just turned in the forms for a magazine fundraiser 2 weeks ago and now he comes home with a new one!

And we only know a few of our neighbors. I am not about to let my 6 year old go knock on doors. He said that the people said he could go do it. WHAT?

Oh- he also told me he needed to make the cookie dough. LOL!
 
I can't believe how forceful they are when it comes to fundraisers. When I was in high school (6+ years ago) they were like that too- but telling him he could go knock on the doors himself- wow! That's crazy!!!!!

Are they planning a big trip or something?
 
funny, my 6 year old brought home fundraiser stuff today too! Although, ours says specifically to NOT send the kids out door-to-door, to rely on family & friends. Downfall for us - there is only ONE elementary school here, which means ALL the children in our community of 4000 are doing the same fundraiser. lol We do cookie dough and lots of other cute & neat stuff in the catalog.
The goal is to sell $10 worth of items though, so they can earn a prize. The more they sell ($$), the bigger the prizes.
I'll be taking the catalog with me to work, although I only work with two other people, and I'll have hubby take it to work with him, although of the 9 guys that work there, 4 of them have kids in the school with mine.
 
Our school actually didn't do any fundraisers this year. I was relieved. Last year they did the wrapping paper one and another one. I hate them. With the economy the way it is none of our friends and especially our family have money for that kind of stuff. We ordered nothing. They were the only kids in the class that didn't get the little prize. This year the school got some kind of grant money and they used that instead of fundraising.

But my 2 older girls are in Girl Scouts and they are insane with the fund raising. My 6yo (who is a Daisy) was supposed to sell 50 boxes of cookies. 50! They aren't supposed to go door to door, just to our neighbors. Well, we don't know most of our neighbors and our family all lives too far away. She sold 11. 5 to my dad (who we live with) and 6 to us. My 8yo in Brownies sold the same amount. That was like $48 for us.

Neither of the girls sold enough to get a patch. I hate fundraisers. I refuse to let my kids peddle crap to our neighbors.
 
Faith's Pre-K sent home fundraising stuff and I just left it in her cubby... I find the whole fundraising thing annoying especially since it's a private preschool that we pay full tuition for. All that money from us and you want us to whore some more for you? Uh-uh, not happening.

Whoa... *steps down from soapbox* :o
 
lizzyfizzy said:
hey i'm all for fundraisers. my kids' school wants $200 per kid instead of fundraisers.
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i know a lot of programs that do that. like a lot of girl scout troops, for example, you have to pay $200 a year or something to be in it, and then also participate in their fundraisers, like girl scout cookies or whatever (which, by the way, the troop you buy them from gets about 40 cents of the $3.50 you pay per box. the rest goes to national girl scouts, and their local council. they get practically nothing for the work that they did to sell them. i think its ridiculous, but anyway)
 
Ugh! As a former teacher, I know first hand it gets waaay over the top sometimes. I NEVER pushed my students to do them. I remember my mom's frustration over it when I was in school.
 
Fundraisers get trashed at my house. I understand the need for money but fundraisers just really irk me.
 
I kinda didn't mind them when Kassi was in private school. Even though the school cost a fortune, they need the funds because they can't get them from the state/fed. Now public school (she was there through Oct this year)....that irritated the fool out of me. I understand they don't get enough funding, but dang, you already get tons of tax payer money so why do I have to go around asking again? Didn't make sense to me. Plus they were more expensive than the private school ones. Go figure.
 
psalm149 said:
Ugh! As a former teacher, I know first hand it gets waaay over the top sometimes. I NEVER pushed my students to do them. I remember my mom's frustration over it when I was in school.
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Ditto. I always hated fundraiser time while teaching and refuse to do them now that DS is in school. :thumbdown:
 
My kids just had one for a charity and now are doing one for the school. If we lived in a neighborhood and had the slightest idea who our neighbors were, I'd mind less (though odds are there would be a dozen kids running around all trying to sell you the same thing, like when I was growing up). But my nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away, there are no sidewalks and DS1 is 6. DH won't take the stuff to work because he is the boss of 80% of the people there & feels it puts everyone in an awkward position of feeling they have to buy the boss' kids' stuff.

So I stuff a $20 in the envelope and send it back with a note saying 'sorry couldn't sell anything. keep the $20' I do feel a bit bad my kids will never win any of the cheap crap they offer as prizes for selling the most but not that bad.
 
They get trashed at my house too! It ticks me off that the local lions club gave $5000 to the drama department for COSTUMES for an ELEMENTARY school, yet the teachers have to buy their own copy paper, How friggin backwards is that!!!!?????


BTW they've came home with 5 different fundraisers so far this year and are planning at least 2 more that I know of.
 
I truly understand the need for fundraising activities, for both private and public schools, I just don't like them.

My son is in middle school (he attends 2 periods a day), and I just send a donation instead of actually participating in the fundaising. We live in a small town; and all the kids are doing the same fundraising activities plus I would rather make sure the school received all of the money.

Now, when we were considering a private school, it would have cost $xxxx for tuition plus $1500 "fundraising fee." (You could get your fundraising fee back - dollar for dollar- when you participated in the fundraising activities.)
 
Been there too many times to count. Being forced to to these is absurd, I have done a few in the past with my kids but they did not turn out so well so now the only one we do is the Jump Rope for Heart thing...this is the only one I feel is well worth it.
 
I'm willing to participate within reason, but that means asking a few family members. No door to door for us, either.

I like most of the ones DS1's preschool does--we run a big consignment sale, had dinner at Friendly's, and get products made with the kid's art (I give those as holiday gifts for the grandparents). Now we're doing magazines, and I like that less. DS2 goes to preschool in the public schools, and they've only done wrapping paper and the art thing. No pressure to participate, at least not for the preschoolers.
 
I LOATHE fundraisers. I did them all throughout high school as part of the leadership team. I vowed that I would not make my kids do them. DS is only in preschool and we have already had two or three. Especially for us in the military this is so hard because we don't even have family nearby to peddle to! And likely our friends are in the same boat with the same fundraiser. And the money doesn't go to the school mainly but to the fundraising company. So this year I just wrote a small check (that I would have spent on said fundraiser item) directly to his school.

Now I will help out with projects for silent auctions, or rummage sales, or restaurant nights, but other than that, I say "no." We haven't even made it to Kindergarten yet!!
 
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