This Middle School's Honest Fundraising Form Is Refreshingly Direct
A viral social media post highlights a creative fundraising strategy from Saline Middle School. Instead of requiring students to sell goods door-to-door or participate in labor-intensive events, the school's Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) has issued a form that allows parents to donate money directly in lieu of traditional activities. The form humorously lists options for parents to opt out of baking, selling wrapping paper, participating in "thons," or attending galas, with a final option to simply donate $100 to "forget my name." This approach aims to simplify the fundraising process by collecting tax-deductible donations directly, sparing families from the typical obligations associated with school support initiatives.
a school that uses the ghetto slang "hit up?"
As a parent of a kid in elementary school in the United States, this hits really close to home. Sadly our taxes don't cover enough to pay teachers or provide sufficient material. So the school "solves" this by going through a 3rd party vendor whose sole business model is to provi
How much for not requiring to write exams and still get an A?
America's unequal funding of its education system reflects negatively on the moral character of the adult people living and voting there and I will die on this hill. "Unlike other centralized OECD systems, U.S. K-12 funding relies heavily on a mix of state budgets (~48%) and loca
All those taxes are needed elsewhere "to maintain peace by waging war" or something like that. If the just the top 500 capital gains people paid the same tax percentage as average Joe, how many schools would that fund?
Here's nothing. And a $5 charge for wasting my time.
looks fake, also taxes aren't enough? wtf
Did they just casually affirm that they were supposed to send our child to labour to finance their schools ? wtf America
When I was 10 we had a charity bake sale. You could make anything as long as it was snacks - cookies, popcorn, etc. My mother was quite poor at the time so we went for popcorn. We spent all afternoon making the popcorn, putting it in small bags, putting curly ribbons on each bag,
My school used to ask ise to sell chocolate bars to fund things like a ski trip. I never sold anything directly, my father would simply put the asking price in the envelope and eat one every evening until the box off supply would be empty.