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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do this.

Really, it just leads to more increased dependance amongst the parents. It's $8 and the family can come up with the money. The family has to make a choice - buy one less convenience item that week vs. send their kid on the field trip.

It's not sweet, or cute, or helpful. It's the opposite. It creates a constant stream of dependance.

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Go take a nap, Ebenezer.[/quote]

Really I think the PP is on to something. Go to school during snack time or go on the fieldtrip and see how many of your kid's classmates bring in snacks-- hot cheetos, juice boxes, cookies, gatorade. I stopped donating to the field trip when I volunteered to go with the class.  I was amazed that kids who didn't pay had several dollars worth of junky snacks, while I made my kid drink from a recycled water bottle and eat a sandwich bag of Kix cereal.  I also was pissed off that a mother came who didn't pay, didn't pay for her kid, and brought a younger sibling who she didn't pay for and she had a nicer smart than I do (she had a smart phone with internet while i still have a flip phone). [/quote]

Do you realize many parents are just on survival mode?  Maybe they were not taught budgeting or healthy eating or maybe the parents are couponing and picking the cheapest stuff.  We buy the cheapest cereal on coupons.  I rarely will more than $1.50 for a box.  Sure, I prefer Kix, but we get what is in our budget (usually I buy better stuff for the kids and the husband gets the crap).  Same with juice boxes - husband gets what is cheap.  Kids do get water.  Sadly, that crap food is cheaper.  Or, maybe they are getting it from a food pantry and that is what has been donated.[/quote]

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