Anonymous
Post 08/17/2020 00:16     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
You don't need to participate, OP.

My oldest is now in high school, I was on the PTA Board of his elementary for many years, and there's nothing I hate more than too many fundraisers. I ignored ALL of them except for the annual donation to the PTA (check-writing campaign, easy). Also, it's not socially acceptable to bug friends and family for money.



Anonymous
Post 08/17/2020 00:12     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Oh sorry, missed that this is a co-op. Yeah, that's the whole reason we didn't join the co-op - we don't have time to clean the playground, send in toilet paper every two weeks, etc...
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2020 00:10     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is our first time sending a child to any sort of preschool, and he is signed up for a tiny co-op school with one teacher and a dozen other children. We went to the parent meeting this week and were surprised that there are already three different fundraisers organized (Little Caesar pizza kits, bike-a-thon, etc.) The expectation was obviously that we participate and hound our relatives/friends to give money. I feel very uncomfortable with this, especially since it’s a private school. It feels so tacky. I don’t want to be shunned by the other families, and we hope to send our other kids to this neighborhood preschool in coming years, but I decline participation in these things usually on principle.

Why can’t they ask for more tuition to cover their budget needs?! Why the fundraising? How do you handle this?


Wow! How do you live with yourself each day? I haven’t heard this kind of miserable, greedy, self righteous bs on here in awhile. In the slight chance it is due to lack of education, let me provide some. Private preschools or schools in general are the schools that rely solely on tuitions and donations to pay their bills and keep their schools SERVING the community. Non profit schools and public schools are assisted by grants a and money from the federal government and state governments and are well funded. If private schools don’t perform, parents will not go and they will close down and those children will be out of a spot and flood the public schools. If public schools under perform, they are given time to improve and still get money from the government. The salaries paid ito non profit manager meant is ridiculous. Private school owners do not nearly bring home that kind of money. Finally, I venture to say that private schools still provide a higher quality experience moreover than non profit schools. I don’t know how they do it with the financial demands, but I guess their parent base is more reasonable and generous than the likes of you. Wake up!


Tone deaf!! I'm with OP here. If the school needs more money, then they should raise tuition or have one or two large fundraisers a year, not three already in the first month of school! My child attends a private preschool and there are two fundraisers a year, and we spend maybe $150 between them and have never been "shunned" - nobody knows how much you earn anyway.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 20:29     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Cops aren’t really “private schools,” they are shoestring operations that charge minimal tuition and require everyone to throw in labor, fundraising, etc. This is how they survive. You can give $ rather than selling pizzas, or you can go to a school that charges a ton more.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 20:20     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Yep, shouldn't have signed up for a coop. They have to make up for lower tuition somehow.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 20:14     Subject: Re:Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Fundraising isnt my jam. I donate $ and call it a day. The end.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 19:03     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Why did you sign up for a co-op? Doesn't sound like it is your thing.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 19:00     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
You could just donate some extra and skip. I think preschools do this because they don’t want to price our families who couldn’t afford it if it were built into the cost of tuition and because there are sometimes bigger long term expenses that it makes more sense to fundraise for.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 08:35     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
Anonymous wrote:This is our first time sending a child to any sort of preschool, and he is signed up for a tiny co-op school with one teacher and a dozen other children. We went to the parent meeting this week and were surprised that there are already three different fundraisers organized (Little Caesar pizza kits, bike-a-thon, etc.) The expectation was obviously that we participate and hound our relatives/friends to give money. I feel very uncomfortable with this, especially since it’s a private school. It feels so tacky. I don’t want to be shunned by the other families, and we hope to send our other kids to this neighborhood preschool in coming years, but I decline participation in these things usually on principle.

Why can’t they ask for more tuition to cover their budget needs?! Why the fundraising? How do you handle this?


Wow! How do you live with yourself each day? I haven’t heard this kind of miserable, greedy, self righteous bs on here in awhile. In the slight chance it is due to lack of education, let me provide some. Private preschools or schools in general are the schools that rely solely on tuitions and donations to pay their bills and keep their schools SERVING the community. Non profit schools and public schools are assisted by grants a and money from the federal government and state governments and are well funded. If private schools don’t perform, parents will not go and they will close down and those children will be out of a spot and flood the public schools. If public schools under perform, they are given time to improve and still get money from the government. The salaries paid ito non profit manager meant is ridiculous. Private school owners do not nearly bring home that kind of money. Finally, I venture to say that private schools still provide a higher quality experience moreover than non profit schools. I don’t know how they do it with the financial demands, but I guess their parent base is more reasonable and generous than the likes of you. Wake up!
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 07:58     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
I do the ones that build community - ride bikes on a Saturday morning? Sure, and here is ten dollars. But I don’t give much and I don’t ask family/friends, especially now.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 07:49     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
I don’t participate. It’s incredibly tacky when private schools do these.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2020 05:53     Subject: Skipping the preschool fundraisers?
This is our first time sending a child to any sort of preschool, and he is signed up for a tiny co-op school with one teacher and a dozen other children. We went to the parent meeting this week and were surprised that there are already three different fundraisers organized (Little Caesar pizza kits, bike-a-thon, etc.) The expectation was obviously that we participate and hound our relatives/friends to give money. I feel very uncomfortable with this, especially since it’s a private school. It feels so tacky. I don’t want to be shunned by the other families, and we hope to send our other kids to this neighborhood preschool in coming years, but I decline participation in these things usually on principle.

Why can’t they ask for more tuition to cover their budget needs?! Why the fundraising? How do you handle this?