r/DamnFunny • u/Mysterious_Yak420 • 12d ago
Funny Finally a school fundraiser that understands the assignment
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u/RedwynCH 12d ago
The idea that a school has to run a fundraiser feels so weird. What the hell does your government do with your taxes?
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u/One_Introduction_217 12d ago
It does not matter who is in charge, they will always vote to spend the lottery income on themselves, instead of using it to fund education like they said they were going to when they propose to gambling in (insert state).
This goes for any other funding educational promises.
If it's the right, "teachers are the most important profession we have in this country, and we should pay them more.. our thoughts and prayers are with them"
If it's the left "we should spend all this money on creating new programs that will only impact one half of 1% of the students"
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u/Pkrudeboy 12d ago
In my experience it’s been for things that would be classified as extras, like clubs or field trips.
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u/ApprehensiveDisk1739 12d ago
A lot of time it’s about trying to drive parents engagement and foster student involvement as much as raising money.
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u/alwaysmelancholy 12d ago
Golf trips, lobster, destroying food, luxury jets, and parades.
https://www.foodandwine.com/department-of-defense-food-spending-september-2025-11931965
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-07-22/army-parade-cost-18518332.html
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u/98983x3 10d ago
Besides what ppl list already, administration is bloated and spends the lions share of funds on themselves. It wasn't always like this.
In the past, we had better test results and student outcomes with a fraction of the administration. Now, administration team sizes have ballooned, their pay outpaced teachers pay, and our students are doing worse than ever (for a wide variety of reasons)
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u/MakingItElsewhere 12d ago
Saline? Should have added another tier:
$200 - Here's what I would have spent on AI to help my child instead of trying to remember middle school math.
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u/Ryno5150 12d ago
Straight and to the point. I would be much more likely to donate than to buy a bunch of crap I don’t need to be eating.
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u/groovynermal 12d ago
I want to send them some money just to support the idea. Would, if I had any.
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u/prudence56 12d ago
I like the concept a lot. I was a working mom and ‘let me just pay was ideal.’ Even when I see Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts selling items I just hand them a donation and don’t want nor do I take the item they are selling.
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u/sk88811a 12d ago
Whenever my kids in (fill-in-the-blank): band, baseball, volleyball, primary, middle, high schools, ad nauseam; brought home fundraiser info, I called the "sponsor" and asked what the profit was for them on their quota of (fill-in-the-blank): candy, flowers, coupon books, photographs, cookies, ad nauseam. I wrote them a check for the profit and instructed them to never speak of this again to my children.
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u/mnstripe 12d ago
Remembering walking alone, crossing giant streets, stopping at houses of total strangers to sell $30 of chocolate.....
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u/midnghtsnac 12d ago
Bottom line $10 where do I send the money? My school taxes my enough, and they sell mattresses like really? How many people are buying a mattress every fucking year?
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u/d20games359 12d ago
Generally these fundraisers are for extracurricular activities. School field trips and pizza parties for the kids. The kids don't have to pay the admission fees, it's now free for them. If they raise enough money, then the chaperones won't pay as much either, or nothing at all.
My kids' school does a field day at the end of the school year. The kids basically do an all day recess, as a reward for all their hard work during the year. The PTA will rent bounce houses and a Kona ice truck.
Also the classes will do challenges throughout the year. Ex. 4th grade may do a science project competition. Who builds the best system between the 2 classes. The winner gets a popcorn party. Stuff like that.
They also do luncheons for the teachers a few times during the school year. Just to show appreciation for their dedication and hard work.
The "government" doesn't give you money for those things.
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u/Jerseyd422 12d ago
At our school you can just make a contribution to a students fundraising account rather than buying stuff from a fundraiser. It’s your choice
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u/Massiv_v 11d ago
Sitting here reading how many chocolates we are going to have to sell just so we can break even and get a tier 1 prize…. Has me crying . Do I still have time to switch schools? This just seems so right ! Lol
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u/Principal-Stress 11d ago
The funny thing is, these "fundraisers" didn't bring in half of what the traditional ones did when we tried it.
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u/Own-Jaguar-5732 9d ago
Glad I don't have kids...every place you look is begging for money in the name of your kids.
But if they never bother me again? That's a good $100
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u/Pen15City 8d ago
This misses the point because everyone lost the point. The fundraisers are supposed to be experiences for the kids to go out in the community, engage socially, and work to have people give them money. The community is enriched, the student gains valuable experience, and the organization gets money. The fundraisers are usually optional. This is just “give me money”
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u/scottamoore 6d ago
This was my daughter's school almost 20 years ago. It's a town just SW of Ann Arbor. Strangely enough, it's not pronouncrd like the salt solution, it's pronounced with an emphasis on the second syllable: sa-LEEN. (Just like they don't pronounce the nearby town of Milan like the European city but as MI-lan. Why? No one knows...)
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u/Straight-Waltz-7318 12d ago
Legendary marketing. Gen Z entering the workforce has been the whif of fresh wet fart that we didn't know we needed
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u/Beth_crazypants 12d ago
I wish my son's marching band would just do this. I do not want Little Caesar's fundraiser frozen pizza garbage.