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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
you can still feel moraly superior, and everybody wins.
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Are you kidding me? I'm not here to feel morally superior. I here to discuss maintaining the highest standards for the children of public schools. I have an interest in having high morals, but not in any comparison to other people's morals.
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Seriously though, what's the problem? Fazolli's does this in partnership with my son's private...
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Odds are, I was going to shop there anyway.
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That would be a pretty silly, money wasting marketing scheme now wouldn't it. Waste revenue to get people to do something they were already doing. That contradicts the idea of getting "more" people to shop there.
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Schools, both private and public, have to be ever more creative in their fund raising.
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I agree. However, in my opinion, this is a perfect example of being less creative. If they can just take the easy road of getting in bed with large corporations they don't need much creativity; they just need McDonald's to want children to shop there.
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Originally Posted by dippin
that there is a line between the appropriate and the inappropriate somewhere is beyond obvious and doesn't need analogies to be defended. I think what people have an issue with is trying to equate mcdonald's with any of those extremes. To keep pushing extreme analogies is not helping the discussion either. So why don't you say, precisely, why you think that the mcdonald's fundraiser is wrong, and then people can go from that?
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If the line is obvious, please tell me where it is. I believe that McDonald's is a bad source of fundraising because it promotes bad eating habits, is unhealthy, has poor fundraising margins, sets an example of selling out to corporate interests without regard for the non-monetary cost, makes a company that should be pointed out for its flaws to a child seem like it is their friend and positive for their overall life, and I think that there are better ways to get the community together to set positive examples for children while still getting some cash for the school.