Schools

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 09:27 pm Post Subject:

Well you are probably right there,I think it is the PTA here.They have this Xmas shop every Xmas.The kids can come and buy gifts for their relatives. It is dirt cheap to expensive.My daughter took her coke break money and bought me and her father a gift.Know what it was? A Christmas tree ball ornament that had painted on there "I love you".We don't even have a tree. My kids love to buy and they appeal to that. Sames as the book sale they have 2 times a year/.everything they have there is expensive.Maybe you are right maybe we should get a petition up at our school saying we are fed up with our kids bring home all the sales stuff and dumping it in out lamp.I used to sit up every night after everyone else went to bed,filling out these addresses for the magazine sales. UGH!!!

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:29 am Post Subject:

It is a bunch of crap, a big money racket. I think it should be illegal as hell, the kids could all go together and do a car wash every now and then or run a flea market, have the parents volunteer to man the tables, there are many things that the kids could do as a group event instead of competing with each other, especially in the rural areas where you have 10 kids beating on your door for the same junk.

To over come this, you need to first off teach your kids that this is unfair practice so that they don't feel bad when they don't sell it or enough of it to get that yoyo. They try to make it sounds so appealling, they are wolves and the companies are not going to stop pushing the crap, so the parents are going to have to start pushing back, let the schools know that their garbage is not allowed in your house or in your childs hands and that you will not be held responsible for the garbage if they send it home.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 02:24 am Post Subject:

You guys have a good idea, boycott the selling of the junk, put the companies under, it would almost take a web page dedicated to it to get rid of it. Hummingbird has a good idea to start local with a petition to sign on the garbage, I am sure you would have the community support, nothing worse than a salesman knocking on your door, but when you open it and see a youngster there and tell them no and see the long face.

Lori has a good point, it is almost abuse, imagine if you sent your kid around to sell junk and call it a fundraiser to put food on your table, your community would be outraged at the thought, probably turn you in or find a way to have you arrested.

My husband almost did not get his diploma over this junk, he refused to sell it and they were going to with hold his diploma, he never took the junk home. I would think that you would have a pretty good law suit on your hands if you had the grades to graduate and they would not give you your diploma because you did not sell this junk. He did not want to go on the senior trip or do any of the other FUN things they had planned for them.

Good thought Lori, giving the money directly to the kid, I like that idea.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 03:14 am Post Subject:

Go for it, get the petition started in your local area, just hope like heck your kids don't feel the results of it, they can get pretty nasty about these things.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 04:16 am Post Subject:

This year I have been telling my daughter I will not help her sell this stuff. They have a family fun night and it is games and fun for the whole fail my .I feel bad that there are some kids who aren't able to go maybe because their parents can't afford it or they are busy.They always have these inflatables and my daughter loves playing on them.If they sell 50 raffle tickets they get an arm band to play on them all night for free.One year i helped my daughter do this ,I thought what the heck the arm band costs 10.00. But then this year no one wanted to buy so I said I wasn't doing it anymore. I bought the arm band myself.The school makes a killing off this one affair every year. They say if they make enough that Will be their only fundraiser that year.Funny it never is. They have Xmas store ,book sales 2 times a year.They have box tops for education.Thats OK cause it does not involve selling and all kids can participate.I throw the stuff away anymore as it comes in my door.Petition is a good idea but I don't really know how many people agree with me .Like you said Goodnatured.we could suffer the results.The people who enjoy this sort of thing would persecute us and say we don't want the kids to have more for the school. I will never forget the year my daughter had no spelling book .But the library bought a wide screen tv.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:28 am Post Subject:

I'm not blaming the teachers at all...I blame whomever came up with this scam...and I'm betting it was the businesses owners of all this junk....I just think, and have told all the neices, nephews, etc....''Aunt Odie'' will help YOU if you have trip or something you want to do, but will not be buying this junk, for general purposes (computers for the class room, or whatever)...I will contribute to them only for things that they want to do...and directly to them...as I said, by me giving the neice 20 bucks directly was the same as if she'd sold like 20 candles! Just my take on it...I know there are more people that think the way we all do, than the other way! ha ha.....And I don't know about you all but the taxes we pay for the school district in my area are out of site!

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:58 am Post Subject:

Our school taxes are crazy too, seems like we never get a break there, they keep raising them, the just had an add in the paper about some increase. Thing is your income don't increase to match or offset these increases.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 03:55 pm Post Subject:

True,The school my kids go to also will revoke their license or permit if their grades are failing.They say it is to keep kids in school but sounds like maybe a reason to quit school. They get taxes and the county funds i think that should be enough .Its for all the extras they think they need.Like the wide screen tv in the library .They should have bought spelling books instead.I remember when I first noticed on Valentines day parents were bring to school and leaving at the office Valentine gifts. My daughter came home feeling left out .They used to have these papers that all the kids got where you could order books and things.Then after they came in the teachers gave them out at school and the kids whose parents could not afford them sat feeling left out.I take the stand that if it isn't something all the kids can participate in or receive then it should not be done at school.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 08:42 pm Post Subject:

they should not hand them out in class, they should have to pick up their orders at the office or they could even send them to thier homes.

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 08:36 pm Post Subject:

Thats the way some of us would handle it as to the kids not feelings left out.But schools are not sensitive to these matters .After all it isn't their children being left out. I guess I notice this stuff because when I was going to school I was the one left out. Its like one child eating candy and no giving the others any .Thats how I look at it.