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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you hate Boosterthon so much then go ahead and organize your own fun run for the school. Get some volunteers to assist with it. Raise $40,000 and your school gets to keep it all! Heck, even just raise $20k which would be about your schools take if you went with Boosterthon. Look, it is very hard for schools to get volunteers to pull off a run like that and raise that type of cash. By hiring Boosterthon, the PTA is essentially hiring a company to do the dirty work of the fundraiser. Dirty work that majority of parents would not do.[/quote] Not where we are -- all of the surrounding schools run their own fun run/walks without using boosterthon. Our school did it because the person in charge of the fundraiser was distracted leading a big fight with the school district that directly affected them (their position however harmed most of the other students at the school). I didn't participate and told the PTA President why we wouldn't. We otherwise very generously donate money to the PTA. There were many many unhappy parents who went along with it "just this one time." Not sure what will happen this year. I do know that many pledges went uncollected and the returns were not close to what the PTA initially announced.[/quote]
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