Do you remember having to sell those chocolate bars and those candles etc in school when you were a kid?

They made it a contest. Sell this many. Get this lame prize. So forth.
just remembered poor kid me standing at doors with my order form in hand unable to speak. While strangers looked down at me.

Did that just one year going to doors 😆
My mom took pity. Ordered something every year after that and that was that.

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Muthafukajones · 46-50, M

I don’t like those money drives that schools and other organizations are so fond of doing.

The premise is .. we need money so buy something from me so I can have money.

It’s really no better than begging. I won’t allow my children to participate in it. The schools receive funding and if a fee must be paid for an activity I’ll consider it’s value to my child and pay or not pay for them to participate but what I will not do is ask them to beg in the name of the school and their education.

NativePortlander1970 · 56-60

@Muthafukajones Most states cut budgets to school extracurricular activities, like band and sports, because they started giving bloated salaries to admin and coaches in the 80's. Those fundraisers are needed.