Making Children Give Cash (No Checks!) for Field trips???
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Anonymous
| Does this strike anyone else as absurd and risky? I understand that they may have gotten stiffed in the past by bounced checks for this end of the year trip to Six Flags--but then set it up where you pay online. Or give each child a receipt after they pay. I can't believe they expect 800 or so parents to hand a teacher or some office admin $60 in cash and say--"have fun at the park!" I really wish that Deal could modernize this permission slip nonsense and get it all online with PDF sign offs and digital pay. |
Anonymous
| No big deal. My mom gave me cash in an envelope for field trips all the time in the 80's. |
Anonymous
Yes, and you probably recorded it on BetaMax. That doesn't mean that time stood still and there isn't now a better way. |
Anonymous
| None of the Deal end-of-year trips are to Six Flags, and they take checks - what are you talking about? |
Anonymous
| A lot of people don't have checks anymore. I haven't carried a checkbook in decades. I write out one check every few months and that is only because a particular farm doesn't take credit cards and I never have sufficient cash in my purse so I take a blank check with me when I go. |
Anonymous
| I imagine many people wrote checks that bounced. |
Anonymous
| If your 8th grader can't manage to keep a hold of $60... |
Anonymous
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my kid would not be going to Six Flags.
but for any other field trip I can understand them only wanting cash. |
Anonymous
It's not the kids "keeping hold of $60"; it's having teachers be the caretakers of thousands of dollars in cash. There is such a thing as the "appearance of impropriety" and teachers with wads of kid's cash should not happen if everything is above board. |
Anonymous
It's something something Farm they're going to, and they are NOT taking checks. |
Anonymous
| They take checks if you sign up early. |
Anonymous
Sad that you have to explain this. |
Anonymous
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A lot of dcps families don't have checking accounts.
Also if you aren't going to an amusement park then most field trips cost between around 5 to 15 dollars. |
Anonymous
Well, duh, but if the school would accept checks AS ONE OPTION, that would be a lot better than ALL of the $$ being in cash. |
Anonymous
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Wads of cash for teachers is very minimal. Your school will probably have an 8/9th grade prom the wads of cash will be in the thousands.
At the high-school level...coaches, sponsors, band directors and PTSA are in charge of large sum of cash. Just recently we had over 10K in our possession in cash only; collected from fees and fundraising activities. |