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If you're still planning to visit the PTA, you will have a lot more credibility if you avoid the sweeping overgeneralizations that will get picked apart, and no one will be paying attention to the heart of the issue.
Fundraising is hard work. Its easy to be the one to write the check, but have you ever been on the other side of the coin trying to promote fundraisers? From a Time in -money out standpoint, these types of "visit and 20% donation" are about as effort free for the schools. The cost to them is minimal to spread by word of mouth and paper flyers. If the result of $422 is good money to them for the amount of effort to put in, good for them. I've sold my share of candy bars, wrapping paper, etc and I would say the time input for those compared to the sales volume was miserable.
When our band participated in such fundraisers, it was local non chain restaurants that would offer it for an evening 4 times a year. It actually was the restaurants way of being able to show solidarity, especially because they were right across from the high school.
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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna
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