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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The book fair always seemed like a ripoff. I imagine if the school charges $8/book they might get 10% of that. I'd rather give $8 to the PTA and not buy overpriced books from Scholastic.[/quote]

In our school, Scholastic gives us 25% of the sales. How come you find scholastic to be expensive?  Most books are less than $10.  We carry a whole boatload of books that are for 1-5 dollars. There is however a threshold of sales we have to meet.  We are a school of poor students and they LOVE the bookfair.

I am sure your PTA would love to get $8 from you and not care if you do not buy the books.  As long as you can give the money the PTA is fine. In most of the affluent schools all parents write a check for $100-150 for the PTA and then they do not have to buy anything else. If you can give the money directly to the PTA, the volunteers will be more than happy because they won't have to do any work for fundraisers.

You should always give money to the PTA. They appreciate it a lot. [/quote]

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