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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Oh good. We get the burden of financial management of schools now too. In addition to kid activities, hockey, scouts, band, whatever the hell else your kid does. Now we get our hands out to pay for public education because our government can’t figure out the time tested strategy that’s worked for >100 years. It’s kind of like a different kind of fundraising. It’s called collecting taxes and then disbursing them to public education.
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Hasn't it been that way for a long time though. Like many folks here I was in elementary late 80's and early 90's and we always had fundraisers going on. We had those Scholastic book sales where the school would get kickbacks from Scholastic. We had chocolate sales, we had those Christmas catalogue sales (I still remember those big ass drums of popcorn) and many other things. There was actually a lot more fundraising when I was in school than there is now with my kids.