Do you sometimes feel like your childs school is constantly asking for money?
By amydawn11
@amydawn11 (906)
Canada
May 3, 2007 2:01pm CST
I was just sitting here thinking of all the times I have had to give my daughter money for something at school. I am not complaining, I don't mind when I have it but sometimes it's just one thing after another. Today there is a book fair,and they send out those book club papers every month and she always wants one. Then they have what they call sweet shop every Thursady where they can get candies for .25 cnts(she doesn't always get that because she doesn't need a lot of candy every week). They go on field trips which I want her to do of course but thats money, then they have scientist day a few times and thats 5 bucks each time. They have pizza days, bake sales, the school agenda's. Then there is the cost of lunches each day as there is just not enough time for her to come home and make it back. Plus all the school supplies at the beginning and through out the year and well there is so much more I can't even remember.I love that the schools do so much and my bf makes good money so we are usually ale to allow her to do it all but I was just thinking about when it was just me and her and how hard it was. I was working full time but still didn't make enough money to get buy so I always felt so bad when I couldn't give her all that. Do you ever feel like your always giving your kids money for things at school, and I am just talking about school realted not other stuff cause that's something all on it's own..lol. there are so many people out there that stuggle and it's really hard to even come up with 5 bucks at times so I was just wondering what types of things that involve money are offered at your kids schools and if you think it gets to be too much at times?
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4 responses
@tammyr (5946)
• Etowah, Tennessee
5 May 07
Well it did it here too! I write a book and it went to nowhere!
Our school is not to bad about money. The things they do are usually $1.
they do a book fair once a year and my BF give her $20 to do that with. I give her enough to get one book or item also.
The monthly book orders I don't see unless she REALLY wants something.
Her old scholl was awful about it. At LEAST once a week we were ask to send some thing in.
As for lunches, my daughter takes hers most of the time. That way I know she will eat it.
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@amydawn11 (906)
• Canada
5 May 07
I send my daughter with a lunch too but it usually comes home not eaten. The teacher has talked to her, I have talked to her and still she doesn't eat them. I tried so many different items and she always say I don't like it but even when I send something she says she likes she still doesn't eat it. She is really picky an plus her school is nut free so we really have to be careful what we send and if i was able to send her with a pb and J sandwich she would eat it, but i can't. I understand though if my child was alergic I would be terrified to send her to school. I took her to the book fair yesterday and spent 10, she got 3 books, 2 were chapter books, a cool sharpner , a book mark and an eraser. so that wasen't bad at all, I couldn't complain. The books were on sale for 2 dollars!
@wolves69 (755)
• United States
5 May 07
Wow, this could start lots of ranting...lol
Yes, my kids schools are always asking for money. Besides the lunch money (which they always short change the kids), field trips, and various fairs, they have other ways to raise money: New Book fairs, used book fairs, spring and winter festivals, pizza sales, steak sales, restocking days (money needed to stock paper, pencils, tp, etc), various contests, etc.
What is funny, is the school has certain fund raisers for the sole purpose of buying air conditioners: this has been going on for five years now and still no air conditioners. I guess thats why the state ranks near the last of all states in eduction. Next year, they'll be out of that state.
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@amydawn11 (906)
• Canada
5 May 07
wow, fund raisers for air conditioner but yet no air condition. That's too much, I mean if they actually purchases it then I would be all for it especially since then it would benefit the kids. So I wonder what the school does with that money then? That's just not right. I really just get upset when it seems like for example in a two week period I get asked 4 times for money for something. Sometimes it just seems like too much all at once and some of us are just not rich..lol
@GergOnline (399)
• United States
3 May 07
Schools always ask for money and they will not stop. they collect this money all year long to pay for big events, like graduation parties, or school dances, or after prom! anything that the school budget doesnt pay for. i'm not a parent but i know this is true because my mother was on omy school's PTO and she was head of the organization so i helped her a lot with everything, thru my years in middleschool and highschool, an my younger sister's middleschool years and highschool years.
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@mememama (3076)
• United States
3 May 07
My sons not in school yet, but a good friend has a similar complaint. Her daughters school is always doing fundraisers, like they bring catalogs home to sell stuff. They feel pressure to buy this and they don't know anyone to sell it too. What's bad is that if her daughter sells a certain amount, she gets a prize. All of the other parents have more money so their childrens get prizes while their daughter has nothing.
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@amydawn11 (906)
• Canada
3 May 07
Yes that is hard. my daughter is doing a fundraiser right now and I feel obligated to contribute more than a small amount but I can't really swing it this week and we don't have family around here so it sucks.The thing is i really want her to get a prize.
