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Originally Posted by troutman
My niece was in synchro swimming. I never saw a sport that required as much $ and fundraising. Constant pressure.
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What's everyone's thoughts on fundraising? My kids have played on 2 soccer clubs and a travel baseball academy. One of the soccer clubs did no fundraising, was a little bigger and had great facilities. The other soccer club had 2 bingo nights weekly all year and we were required to work 2 a year. Baseball was a lot of ad-hoc fundraising the parents wanted to do to reduce tournament fees and do things like fund a trip to the cooperstown Tournament.
All the fundraising felt a little icky to me. The soccer bingo was probably the toughest to swallow. It's a club that mostly draws from upper middle class families and we have these Bingos where we go basically take money from these lower income families who spend all their money on bingo and pull tabs to fund our kids soccer.
The baseball fundraisers all revolved around selling stupid crap to families and neighbors to raise money to offset our kids fees. This felt more awkward and cringy to me, (if we really want our kids doing these things, we should pay for it), but not as morally troubling. I usually just bought some of the stuff myself , so I wasn't last on the list of fundraising, but there was some pressure since we all shared the benefit equally.
I imagine at one point in time, fundraisers were about kids being able to put some work into helping contribute to funding their sports, but, it seems like it is all about parents doing the work now.