I guess over the summer I had forgotten how crazy the first month of school is. With the 5 boys in school, we’ve been bombarded with forms, emergency contact cards, invitations to open house, and fundraisers. Yes, fundraisers. Every child is having a fund raiser of one sort or another. I think Clay has two…at the same time!!!! The thing that gets me is that one of his fund raisers is $100 per ticket!! WHAT??!! They don’t want the kids handling the money for those. For safety’s sake, the parents should handle the money for that one. So in other words, parents this fundraiser is your new homework assignment. In this day and time, how many people do you know are going to buy a raffle ticket for $100?? HMMM, let me think….no one that I know! Let me say, that teachers have a tough job and it is tougher because they don’t have the funds to work with that they used to. With that said, I seriously think some of the teachers have lost their minds trying to sell raffle tickets for $100!
I understand that the state has cut back on funding for the schools and I think that is borderline criminal. As a result, the schools have to have the fundraisers so the kids can have the things that they need to learn. Now wait a minute…I thought that’s what my taxes were for. I guess I was wrong. I have no idea what my taxes pay nowadays but it sure isn’t going to the schools.
Okay, I’m off my soapbox. Sorry about that. There are a few things that get me riled up and that happens to be one of them. Now back to our regularly scheduled blog :)
Anyways, I think I’m going to have to mortgage the house again to support all these fundraisers. Candy bars for $2 each, cookie dough for $15-$17 a tub, calendars for $20, and $100 raffle tickets. Yep, gonna have to get that second mortgage.
