How is Boosterthon allowed in Maryland schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Hate boosterthon. Worst part is kids get gifts according to the amount their parents donated.

Completely agree. At our school Ridgeview Middle they have the boosterthon and the funds raised helped kids pay for the end of year orchestra/band/chorus Hershey park trip. One of my child’s friends raised a lot of money and it helped her get a free ticket to the park (the field trip cost $133), but she raised money way over that like maybe $600-700 dollars from family and friends. It made me wonder if the family and friends knew how much was wasted and given to the fundraiser company. I’m sure if the student had just said I would like $133 for the trip and if you wrote me a check for $133, 100% of it would go to me, they would have gladly don’t this as opposed to giving so much to the fundraiser.
They also had a party for those who raised the most money…sending the wrong message to poor people that they can’t have fun bc they are poor. My child also wanted to raise money, because her friends were doing it,and was angry with me when instead I wrote a direct check to the PTA to help with anyone who needed funds for the trip. The whole company was quite disgusting and in poor taste.

I feel the same way. My child is also at Ridgeview middle school, and I am surprised the PTA even allows this company to do their business at the school. It really makes me question Ridgeview PTA and its members. They really should keep its members better informed of the fraudulent practices of these companies.

DP. All these comments about the PTA make me wonder if they are getting some behind the scenes kickbacks from the fundraiser companies bc it’s so obvious the pta continue to accept them with open arms despite knowing they keep a high percentage of the fundraiser funds.

When I served in an ES PTA board, we looked at previous years’ fundraiser data for when we did boosterthon and when we did not. We generally found that we raised $60k during boosterthon and kept about half for the PTA, $30k. In other years, we struggled to get $20k raised in all events. We shared this information and made a campaign promise that if we could raise $25k in direct drives, we would never do another boosterthon.

Don’t you care about how the kids raised the money? You know those commercials they show on gas station pumps? I bet companies would pay good money to have those installed in the school corridor. You could raise even more money for less effort.

Kids are being taken out of class, going to assemblies, pitted against each others, promised prizes, all tactics used by MLMs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Hate boosterthon. Worst part is kids get gifts according to the amount their parents donated.

Completely agree. At our school Ridgeview Middle they have the boosterthon and the funds raised helped kids pay for the end of year orchestra/band/chorus Hershey park trip. One of my child’s friends raised a lot of money and it helped her get a free ticket to the park (the field trip cost $133), but she raised money way over that like maybe $600-700 dollars from family and friends. It made me wonder if the family and friends knew how much was wasted and given to the fundraiser company. I’m sure if the student had just said I would like $133 for the trip and if you wrote me a check for $133, 100% of it would go to me, they would have gladly don’t this as opposed to giving so much to the fundraiser.
They also had a party for those who raised the most money…sending the wrong message to poor people that they can’t have fun bc they are poor. My child also wanted to raise money, because her friends were doing it,and was angry with me when instead I wrote a direct check to the PTA to help with anyone who needed funds for the trip. The whole company was quite disgusting and in poor taste.

I feel the same way. My child is also at Ridgeview middle school, and I am surprised the PTA even allows this company to do their business at the school. It really makes me question Ridgeview PTA and its members. They really should keep its members better informed of the fraudulent practices of these companies.

DP. All these comments about the PTA make me wonder if they are getting some behind the scenes kickbacks from the fundraiser companies bc it’s so obvious the pta continue to accept them with open arms despite knowing they keep a high percentage of the fundraiser funds.

When I served in an ES PTA board, we looked at previous years’ fundraiser data for when we did boosterthon and when we did not. We generally found that we raised $60k during boosterthon and kept about half for the PTA, $30k. In other years, we struggled to get $20k raised in all events. We shared this information and made a campaign promise that if we could raise $25k in direct drives, we would never do another boosterthon.

Don’t you care about how the kids raised the money? You know those commercials they show on gas station pumps? I bet companies would pay good money to have those installed in the school corridor. You could raise even more money for less effort.

Kids are being taken out of class, going to assemblies, pitted against each others, promised prizes, all tactics used by MLMs.

You seem to have poor reading comprehension. The post was about how we direct campaigns instead of boosterthon because we didn’t like how the kids were treated.