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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people want to volunteer to help the school, why do you hate on them?  At our school (I'm the former PTS Pres who likes the book fair and the $$ it brings so we can fund other fun/free events), the parent who runs the book fair doesn't put out most of the crap Scholastic sends.  Sure, a few erasers, book mark's, etc., but the rest stays in the big containers and gets shipped right back to Scholastic.  No need to put it out, just let your book fair parent know.  See, we can share info and help each other rather than hating.[/quote]

We do the same. We don't put most of the small items that scholastic sends and just put some stuff out. Our students buy books and our parents fulfill the teacher booklists. We also randomly hand out free books to students when they buy books and say goofy things like "you are are 20th customer" etc and give them a standing ovation. It is so much fun. We also run it in the evening hours and either show a movie or have some other events planned at the media center. Parents like the evening hours and will buy a ton of books. I agree that the books are inexpensive but the pens and other tchotchkes are really overpriced! 
Another thing we are thinking of doing is doing one shelf of Spanish language books...maybe next year.[/quote]

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