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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Not the PP, but agree with them. [b]Of course, all kids should be able to participate in activities, and the pressure to give money in order to do so fully is what is offensive. [/b][b]Families shouldn't be put into the position that they HAVE to for their kid to fit in socially[/b]. Sure-- FARMS families may be happy to give and there are plenty of opportunities for them to do so. But it's the social pressure of Boosterthon that I don't like.

My school had it a few years ago. Our income is high enough that it's not a problem, but I really hated the pressure. We discontinued it because so many parents hated it. (Though I'll admit that the $$ was good-- it helped our PTA budget for a few years after we stopped!)[/quote]

This plus IMO its irresponsible to raise 30K when you only need 15K. These events are not rocket science. If you didn't raise 50% more than what you need you wouldn't need to make it such as high pressure, sleazy experience. Our school and several others started doing a fun run WITHOUT Boosterthon. Our volunteers were doing a lot of the work in Boosterthon already so it wasn't more work. We didn't gross as much as with Boosterthon but we ended up netting the same amount.  We had the same participation but parents were relieved not to be pressured to spend as much as they did with Boosterthon.

Our goal was to fund the school project not get as much money as we can. I think some PTA moms become too competitive about raising as much money as they can and do not see that they just wasted so much of the communities money. [/quote]

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