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[quote=Anonymous]Our FFX Mount Vernon area ES is going through the annual PTA fundraising drive. On the closed FB page for the PTA, the fundraising comittee and the usual accolytes are crowing about how great it is that the students are sending in their own piggybank savings. To me this is so wrong on many levels but, whithout anonaminity, there's not a chance in heck I'll post negatively on the topic there!

The students are supposed to be benefitting, not bankrolling. (Okay. An exageration, but you get the point.)

The fundraising has gone beyond fundraising. This situation is not "cute".  To my mind this has crossed a line into predatorial collecting.

Im all for students being involved in fundraising, compassionately donating for a good cause. This collection is not for cancer research, or a third world country needing water, or UCM... it's an affluent-area school PTA with a large operating budget that annualy fundraises $30-50k

I have talked with other parents over the years so I know many other parents have the same misgivings about these vast fundraising efforts, especially students' classes being awarded benfits and treats as they meet fundraising goals.

So, what do y'all think?
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