![]() Offering sales incentives to children is not appropriate and you should be ashamed. Unless we’re trying for another generation of Beachbody coaches, this is not good use of classroom time.ĥ. I have to sign a permission slip essentially to let my child sneeze on school grounds, but somehow the fact that a salesperson from some slimy company is coming into the school, cutting into my child’s learning time, and pumping them up to sell! sell! sell! with flashy (impossible to earn) incentives is not something I get a chance to consent to? My kids are pulled out of their educational setting to attend a gruesome sales rally. ![]() You don’t want coins? Get someone who earns more than pocket money and keeps it in something more sensible than a piggy bank to sell your wares.Ĥ. ![]() So there’s no such thing as trying? Doing your best? You have to commit – up front – to accomplishing 100% of your sales goal? What kind of business model makes salespeople commit to meeting 100% of their sales goals? Oh, yeah, pyramid schemes.Īnd no coins? Uh, money is money. You can’t return opened kits and they don’t accept coins as payment. Oh, and at $2 a bar, gargantuan gas station candy bars that represent a quarter of your daily calorie intake aren’t so easy to push off on coworkers in today’s corporate offices where employees are more interested in Fitbit challenges and paleo recipe swaps than they are in increasing their risk of heart disease. But it sure is putting a lot of effort and expense on the parents (many of whom, mind you, have multiple kids and are in a public school system to begin with because they can’t afford a lot of out-of-pocket school expenses.) In most product-based fundraisers, the school only makes $0.55 – $0.65 to the dollar… you can certainly see how it leaves many parents thinking, “Can I just pay the school $30 instead of buying $60 worth of chocolate?” three weeks for us with little advance notice that this big spending was coming right before a major holiday) with very little effort. I know you have to spend money to make money, and I’m sure product sales offer a quick-turn opportunity for schools to make a decent amount of money in a short period of time (uh. The school only makes half the profit and parents have to hound acquaintances to buy overpriced shit they don’t need or want. But this? If I can buy it at Sheetz, I don’t want to buy it from a second-grader.Ģ. And it’s not even good chocolate! The school used to sell human-portioned chocolate bars from a small, family-owned company where you at least felt good about supporting a local business and purchasing something with a high-quality, small batch message. We have a child obesity epidemic in this country, and rather than having a wellness-based fundraiser like, say, a walk-a-thon (where the school profits on almost 100% of the donations), we are filling our cupboards with enough chocolate to break a young, healthy pancreas. Do you know what’s in a king-size package of Reese’s cups? 407 calories, 37.26 grams of sugar and 24.12 grams of fat, that’s what. ![]() King-size gas station candy is disgusting. Maybe you're thinking, wow, that's even bigger fun for you and family this spring! If you are thinking that, I can pretty much guarantee you're not a parent – because this is the worst fundraiser I've ever been a part of. Our school switched this year to a king-size candy bar sale. Ahh, spring is in the air! Warmer weather, ballet flats, early panic about summer childcare and, oh yeah, the school’s spring fundraiser. ![]()
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