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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always thought that the best fundraising tactic would be to let me opt out of every fundraising email, meeting, flyer, etc. if I donate early.  I hate all the crap that goes with auctions, bake sales, gift wrap, etc.  [/quote]
I tried that, and was told I could donate any time..,6 :roll: [/quote]

[b]Um[/b], well, you can and then you can choose not to participate in any fundraising activity.  If you get push back just say I donated already.  Fairly easy to do, really.[/quote]

Why do women posters on this site have to start their "brilliant" observations with "um"?  Seriously.  Why?  Have you been browbeated by men into thinking you can't make a declarative sentence with starting with an "um" or a "well" or a "IMHO"?

And, no in our private we cannot write a additional check and then "choose not to participate".  Wrong wrong wrong.  [b]A simple example, each grade is assigned an activity like "halloween party and parade" or "school play" or "graduation for 8th graders" and you get hell if you don't do your bit for that activity.  Then there's the calls for you to participate 100% in the cap. campaign (I could only get my class to cough up 84% and the pressure was on me.  If I could have put in $5 for those families unwilling to give even $5, I would have).  Then there is:  car wash; cake sales; teacher appreciation lunches (you must send in something); the auction - both working on it and also soliciting donations which goes in the catalogue by name; the gifts for teachers at xmas and end-of-year; the fundraisers for the band or singing group going abroad; the noah's ark; the United Way Halloween boxes; the fall garden party; the honor a teacher dinner; the sally foster gift wrap program; the book sale, and on and on.[/b]The schools already get their $35 K out of us in after-tax dollars, then everything else named above is piled on top of that.  And if you don't play along you get a bad name and then the head of the school doesn't go to bat for your kid when you are ready to move from a K-8 into high school or from high school into college.  This is the game we play and we don't like it one bit.[/quote]

This sounds like a nightmare.  I think I'll stick with public school.  In recent years, our elementary has asked for a one-time PTA donation at the beginning of the year (suggested, $100/child).  After that, you are left alone and it is fabulous.  With that one-time contribution, the PTA is able to do a bunch of great things.  No more wrapping paper nonsense.  [/quote]

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