Boosterthon Runs at MCPS schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the PP's that are boycotting Boosterthon will still make contributions to the school outside of the Boosterthon. Otherwise, your spite against Boosterthon just results in less money for your school. Unless, of course, you don't give a crap about your kids school.

We're a direct donation school with a very healthy PTA fund. I have been making direct donations for years and will continue to do so. I think other parents will stop donating when they hear we are now doing boosterthon. They will have to raise double the direct donation to end up with the same income and my guess is they won't be successful. It's really a foolish choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will someone please think of the children???

we are. Plenty of parents on here said they don't mind doing a donate-for-nothing. we just don't want to give half our money to a for profit corporation; we don't want companies using the kids to raise money, and we also hate the whole giving a prize to the kid who managed to guilt the most people out of their money. Do you think the relatives and friends of the kids know that half the money goes straight to the company? My sibling sponsored my DC last year but I hadn't realized how much goes to the company. I feel guilty now. I am not going to do it this year.

Every company that sponsors fundraising at schools takes a cut - even scholastic - and it is usually far more than the 50% of boosterthon. Now, I agree, donate-for-nothing is my preferred fundraising technique, but let's not think that Boosterthon is an outlier on this.

The difference is that the book fair, restaurant night, etc... you are getting something in return. You get zilch with boosterthon. And the worst part is that non parents that donate, don't realize that half goes to the company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the PP's that are boycotting Boosterthon will still make contributions to the school outside of the Boosterthon. Otherwise, your spite against Boosterthon just results in less money for your school. Unless, of course, you don't give a crap about your kids school.

Yep. I donate to just about every fundraiser they have, as well as my time volunteering. Boosterthon is my hard limit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget that they sell data about you and your child to other companies.

"If fun run participants or their parent/legal guardian (if child is less than 13 years old) opt to allow us to use or share Business Information and other data with trusted affiliates, independent contractors and other businesses for marketing and business purposes, we may choose to do so."

I cannot find how to opt out of this, so I am not completing the registration process for my kid.

Just a terrible business practice all around.

[Anonymous]

ritchie Park is doing this right now, and they gave absolutely no information about how much is going to the PTA vs. the company.

I am refusing to donate and am not going to send my child on the day of the run. I hope my other parents follow suit.

[Anonymous]

Refusing to donate because you don't like the fundraiser? What a jerk. Why don't you just mail a check to the PTA directly? I guess you would be happy to have the benefits of a fundraiser without contributing. Great lesson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Refusing to donate because you don't like the fundraiser? What a jerk. Why don't you just mail a check to the PTA directly? I guess you would be happy to have the benefits of a fundraiser without contributing. Great lesson.

You can't just send a check directly to the PTA, boosterathon takes it. It is in their contract. And I've donated plenty to the PTA already.

[Anonymous]

That is not true, and I bet you haven't donated a cent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is not true, and I bet you haven't donated a cent.

read the boosterathon contract, and you have no idea who I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Refusing to donate because you don't like the fundraiser? What a jerk. Why don't you just mail a check to the PTA directly? I guess you would be happy to have the benefits of a fundraiser without contributing. Great lesson.

You can't just send a check directly to the PTA, boosterathon takes it. It is in their contract. And I've donated plenty to the PTA already.

+1

Any PTA donation during a certain amount of time surrounding the Boosterthon does INDEED to to the Boosterthon and not directly toward the PTA. Just one more thing in the contract that is not divulged to parents.

[Anonymous]

Boosterthon has no ability to clawback donations made outside of the scope of the Boosterthon fundraiser. You are simply foolish if you believe that.

[Anonymous]

NP. If Boosterthon takes direct contributions, just donate after it's over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boosterthon has no ability to clawback donations made outside of the scope of the Boosterthon fundraiser. You are simply foolish if you believe that.

Outside of the window yes, but there is a window of the day they do their pep rally until the week after the run, that they are entitled to the same percentage (between 48-60%) EVEN if the check was made out to the actual PTA. Do your homework, read the contract before you say something is foolish.

I think it is foolish to make kids fundraise for their school and then take over 50% of the money they fundraised to a for-profit company that held a 50min pep rally and 2hr fun run.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why Ritchie Park is holding the run on take your child to work day. It is almost like they decided, fine, we will hold the fundraiser but we will pick a day when we know 50% of the school is absent? Makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

I prefer to donate directly to my child's classroom. I know she/ he benefits from that.