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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The strategy is nasty??  She would be humiliated?  Oh come on.[/quote]

I'm a different poster and I agree that the tactics are completely inappropriate. My daughter was completely freaking out last year (1st grader) when I told her we wouldn't participate. The strategy is to make kids feel ashamed if they don't participate. The fundraiser takes classroom time, and there are announcements over the intercom. It's intrusive and inappropriate. We can and do donate to the PTA every year but what the heck do those kids feel whose families can't afford to donate, when the fundraising is so blatantly a part of the school day like this? It's indecent and totally wrong. It's whoring out our kids to benefit a for-profit company.

Also -- don't send money to the PTA *while* the boosterthon is going on. Make sure to do it before or after the boosterthon is over -- preferably well before or well after -- so that boosterthon doesn't get part of that money anyway.[/quote]

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