Do you feel like everytime you turn around the school/PTA

[Jo]

is hitting you up for more money?LOL

[Jo]

It seems like we have constant fund raisers. I don't mind that they need the money but it seems like there is a new one every week!

[Kristen]

i don't have a pta, but the kids in the schools our area are FOREVER having fundraisers of one sort or another. and I HATE pizza kits! LOL

[Heather]

Oh yes. They've had several fund raisers at the boys' school so far this year. And that's not counting the book orders(not to say they pressure you, but sometimes it feels that way.. since they get new books and what not for the school when you order), but we don't always have extra cash for that kind of stuff. We ended up not doing the last fundraiser, but I promised the boys they could do the one that's currently going on. Nothing is under $12 so I told them I'd order One thing from each of them. We did just get our income tax return, but I refuse to spend more than $24-26 on that stuff(total).

[Val]

YES!!! Cailin's sold cookie dough, discount cards, ebooks, vacations, and a bunch of other little crap (t-shirts, candy canes) and it's only February. It's totally insane.

[Beka]

nope, our school doesn't for the simple reason we acknowledge we're in such a crappy area where everyone is broke (majority of households are living entirely on non-working welfare benefits, the large % of the rest are recieving government income top up due to extreme low wages) and so we just don't do that because it would cause alot of financial duress in some households and some kids are in extremely vunerable situations at home as it is in our area.

We do have fund raising days but they are ones where you can attend, have fun and spend literally nothing- we never do "send X home and sell them" deals- when we have a fayre coming up we'll send home raffle tickets with the kids but they don't have to sell them. Our fund raising days are tea mornings (how terribly british hey? :lmao ) where parents, carers, grandparents, older non-school age sibs can attend, take their student out of class for a time to enjoy a drink and cookies- drinks are like £0.15p (around 30 cents) for a glass of Juice, 30p for a cup of tea... very affordable and you don't have to buy a set ammount. At fayres we have things like a face painter, a bouncy castle- all skills are donated for free (you're looking at the mad raffle woman here who ferries through the huge face painting queue) as skills are donated then we don't have to charge a set ammount to cover it, kids pay like 50p for face painting etc

we are lucky that we live in such a lousy area a local charity pays for our school to take a field trip to the theatre at christmas- doesn't even cost the ticket price for us to send our kids.

so yep- we're really lucky, the pta does however hit up plenty of local businesses and charities in times that the school needs stuff

[Kami]

Everytime I turn around some school club is having a fundraiser!

[Jejune]

For surely. Sometimes I don't mind, but I do mind when the implication is that you must donate or raise money or you are Bad or Lazy. We simply can't afford every fundraiser, and I'd rather give money to the school directly than buy crap I don't need or want.

[Kristen]

That's how I feel, Kristen. Instead of writing a check for $25, $15 of which goes towards the cost of a stupid pizza kit, I'd rather just write a $10 check to the school.