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Originally Posted by robot_parade
People don't like to beg for handouts, and they don't generally like to give them, either. This way you have the fiction of buying and selling to cover the otherwise awkward social situation.
Think about this - girl scout cookies are also the same thing.
If you simply did away with this method of fundraising, what would you replace it with?
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In my mind there is no begging when you are requesting funding for school activities. That either party would feel that way is strange to me, but I suppose that may be true. My daughter has recently stopped participating in Girl Scouts for that reason among a few others. I would replace this method of fundraising one of two ways. Increase taxes to appropriately fund the school or develop a number that is required to fund the gap, and keep a running tally showing the parents of students the amount that remained to be donated.
Each time my daughter brings home a sales fundraiser, I promptly write a check for $100 dollars and send it back in the envelope the next day. That way the school gets all the money. When she said brought home a permission slip for a pizza party that also said to please donate $5 to cover it and more if you could help for the kids that didn't have money, I sent back $30. I understand everybody cannot donate the same, but as long as some of us are going to subsidize that either way(by donating more or being the parents to take our children to McD's), why is it better to bring any fast food restaurant into the picture?