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[quote=Anonymous]The for-profit thing bothers me less than the loss of instructional time. It's huge. Like someone said it is an assembly every day over several weeks, plus the 1-2 hours for lining up, doing the actual "run" on day of the event, etc. Then the prize distributions also take time daily for the top fundraisers. Not to mention the kids who don't raise much feel left out of prizes, covered in another thread.

Our old school's principal was always trying to streamline parent-run programs and talked a lot about avoiding "loss of instructional time" as a reason to limit/cut anything she didn't like... but then allowed Boosterthon because the PTA turned over the money to her. They did net slightly more money overall than when they used parent volunteers for the run. But I don't understand how they all justify this loss of instructional time. It has to be at least 15-20 hours of instructional time lost [u]per child[/u] over the course of 2-3 weeks. I guess if she billed the assemblies as instructional time that is how she got around it. [/quote]

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