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Big deal. If you are moraly opposed to this type of fund-raising activity, then just take the $20, that you'd have dropped on a #3 value meal and a 4 piece McNugget Happy Meal, and write a check to the school. That way the school gets some cash, you can still feel moraly superior, and everybody wins.
Seriously though, what's the problem? Fazolli's does this in partnership with my son's private school. Once a month (I think it's the third Wednesday) they have a *insert school's name here* night. 10% of thier total sales from 4:00 to 8:00 go to the school. It ends up being as much a social thing as anything else, as we always see people from the school that we know.
If we take our store reciepts, from a particular grocery store, into the school, they can redeem them for a percentage of the total of the value of the receipts collected. Is that a cleverly couched ploy to get more people to shop at that grocery store? Hell yeah it is! But, so what? Odds are, I was going to shop there anyway.
His school also sells...well, for want of a better word...gift cards. You can buy a $10 certificate, from the school, to a participating business and use it for it's face value. The school gets...I think 5% kickback. If I'm at the school, and I know that I'm going to be going to store X in a couple of days, then I'll pick one up.
Schools, both private and public, have to be ever more creative in their fund raising. Private schools have been doing this for years. You're just now starting to see it more with public schools, I think.
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