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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 04:52 PM
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Sally Foster: A rant.
Why, oh, why are kids expected to sell worthless junk that no one wants or needs every friggin' year??!! How much wrapping paper can anyone use anyway? And WHAT exactly are my school taxes going for if kids have to fundraise to make ends meet? My daughter is in kindergarten, fer Chrissakes! :rant:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 04:53 PM
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1. SPORTS!
:bounce:

:puke:
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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 06:15 PM
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2. This is elementary school! eom
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 08:08 AM
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10. I played basketball in elementary school
3rd grade through 5th grade :)

We didn't have organized sports in my primary school (K-2nd grade), though.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 06:21 PM
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3. I saw a great bumper sticker a couple of years ago
"Wouldn't it be great if our schools were fully funded and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale?"
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 06:41 PM
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4. Actually, my school uses it to fund teacher "enrichment."
Edited on Tue Sep-04-07 06:42 PM by bbernardini
I can't think of the right terminology at all, but where I teach, Sally Foster is used to raise money to send teachers to various classes, workshops, etc. (It's a small private school.)
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 07:51 PM
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5. Oh my Gods I hear you - my daughter just got home from her
very first day of kindergarten and what came home with her but a Sally Foster catalog! I am furious and will not permit her to do it or rather should I say that I will not sell the crap to my friends and collegues for her. I hated all the times that I got snookered into buying stuff from friends' kids and vowed that I would not do the same with my kid. So the stupid catalog can stay in the envelope it came it and I will send in a $20 donation.
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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 05:03 AM
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7. My sentiments exactly.
I sent in a donation to cover the school year. I have no problem with selling stuff to finance the band trip, swim team, etc., but I don't see why ALL kids are expected to participate in selling this crap. The catalog went directly to the recycle bin.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 08:26 PM
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6. It is likely that the PTA is the one doing the fundraising.
If your state's laws are anything like the ones around here, the school can't actually fundraise.

Sally Foster sends back half of the money raised to the PTA or whatever organization is doing the fundraising. You can short-circuit this by simply sending in a cash donation to the PTA.

Our school offers smaller class sizes than the state pays for... so we fundraise to close the gap. Taxes don't cover everything, unfortunately (as if we even keep our school tax money in this neighborhood - it all gets sent to the other side of the state!)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 05:56 AM
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8. it is a DISGRACE
I buy stuff from my coworkers because, well, I like my coworkers (conflicted as to whether or not this contributes to the problem) but I too fail to understand why the f*** kids / parents / teachers are forced to do this
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Debbi801 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 07:58 AM
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9. I agree...
I have 3 kids in 3 different schools (elementary, middle, and high school) and each of them came home the first day with a freaking fund raiser catalog.

The elementary school is the only one not selling the wrapping paper. He's selling groceries. :shrug:

I HATE school fundraisers!!!
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 08:11 AM
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11. whatever happened to selling chocolate and cookies?
I get a kid of my own and suddenly it's xmas and birthday wrapping paper. There's nothing fun about that. If I'm going to buy something from a catalog, it's going to be the actual gift, not the paper to tape around the gift.
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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 09:33 AM
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14. And they don't seem to sell gift bags, either. eom
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 08:11 AM
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12. I'm at the point I'd rather just donate a few dollars
then to buy crap I don't need
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 08:29 AM
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13. Geez, I know! School just started in Chicago yesterday and I already have a
bunch of coworkers hawking stuff for their kids. Of course, we *do* need to cut corners when we're funding illegal wars dontcha know. :eyes:
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 10:45 AM
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15. My kids's school sells Sally Foster, cookie dough. coffee, chocolate, etc.
It never ends. We don't go door-to-door to ask the neighbors; we just buy a few things for our house. It adds up, though.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 10:51 AM
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16. nothing like that yet, but we fundraise in some way all year long
(small private school)

They do the magazine thing in the winter, but mostly it's wine tastings, plant sales, git basket raffle, spaghetti dinner, bake sales, movie night, etc. We are always looking for more ways to raise money....

my checkbook is always open as soon as school starts....
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 11:31 AM
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17. It's never-ending, too
I have 3 kids and I remember it well - the Sally Foster catalog right off the bat. Then the fees for any activities. Then school pictures. Then field trips. Then extra supplies for mandatory projects.

I was POOR when my kids were in school - single mother raising 3 kids while working road construction. It was hard enough to afford their damn lunch. :grr:
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 11:57 AM
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18. One word: Buyout
MG Jr. is in--get this--PRESCHOOL--a cooperative preschool no less (that means tuition and assisting in the classroom every time you turn around), and they were talking fundraising. Like hell. We're broke, but not so broke that we can't throw them $50 per semester to keep the fundraising thing at bay. (If we were to participate, we'd have to sell $80/semester worth of whatever crap they decided to shove at people.)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 12:01 PM
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19. The school my daughter goes to has half the salary of the school nurse
paid for by the PTA. And some of the building improvements.

:wtf:

Why should the PTA have to fund things that the taxes we pay should cover?
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