ACTUALLY, Boosterthon still needs teachers for volunteers - they take 48% of the cut, charge a 2k booking fee - you are obviously just a Boosterthon employee trying to downplay the situation. |
My kids are in middle school, but the elementary school they went to is doing something like this for the first time this year. It's not called Boosterthon, but it is similarly wrapped in "positivity" and "leadership" babble. Ugh.
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Public schools: if it’s free, your child is the product! |
I absolutely hate these “prices”. They are hand out in front of other students, so basically the more you donate, the more stuff your kid gets in front of all classmates, so they can be sad and cry then to their parents for money 🙄🙄maybe stop f-not wasting money on free food and actually pay for the things schools need |
i agree with this. when i was a kid i sold cookie for girl scouts and candy for sports. nothing for the school. |
As a teacher, Boosterthon gave me the same icky feelings it gave the parents of my students. Worse still, the Boosterthon staff were in my classroom 1-2x/day to “encourage” the kids and give them prizes. I’d have to give up instruction for the 10 minutes they were there with the kids, and I never knew the exact timing. After the Boosterthon staff left the room, I’d be stuck trying to refocus kids who had spent 1/5 of class time getting hyped up with loud music, cheering, and prizes.
It was new administrators who invited Boosterthon to campus where I worked, not the PTA. In my opinion, it made the brand new head and assistant head look ridiculous without increasing total donations to the school that year. |
And you're paying how much to private school for essentially the same education that my kid is getting for free? Joke's on you, sucka! |
Only a frog in the well would say something like that! I’ll not disillusion you though. |
We just had our boosterthon. With the most ridiculous slogan Change the World. Seriously? It's laughable. They take 40% of what is raised and we raised a ton. The reason why schools do this type of fundraising is because it's easy. Kids are like whoa I want a prize or I want PJ day for my class. They hound their parents. Kids see the prizes other kids get in class they hound their parents. Parents, grandparents, family friends give. Boom tons of money even after the company takes their cut. We used to ask at the beginning of the year for parents to donate $75 per kid most parents didn't give anything. But with boosterthon we are averaging about $64 a kid and that's even though not everyone participates. People say they hate boosterthon and rather write a check but that's not the reality. |
This thread is so depressing. Makes me a little bit glad that we are in a title one school and I don't think my principal would ever go in for this |
Our school is doing Boosterthon for the first time and I have a question for seasoned parents:
Is it better if I write a check directly to the school so they don't have to give Boosterthon the 40% cut, or does that someone make the school look like they raised less money? I assume the direct check is preferable but is there something I'm not thinking of? |