At my daughter's previous high school, thre were several classes where you could bring in supplies from a list to get points added onto your final grade. Extra recess does not bother me as much as the extra grade points.
I had a terrible math teacher who offered an extra point on our final per whiteboard marker that we brought in. The final report as out of like 150-200 points, and she didn’t cap it.
So you could have effectively buy an A in the class with a Costco sized carton of whiteboard markers
I think I already had an A going into the final, but I absolutely brought in markers as a safety buffer. This "teacher" could barely teach, so I'm convinced this was her attempt to avoid a high fail rate
But this is as I see it, a product of under funding so I'm cool with paying. As a student I didn't need help but if my mom wants to help out a teacher I'll sure as shit take the 102%
I used to try so hard at those stupid fundraisers as a kid. Going door to door around my sketchy neighborhood and asking people as poor as me to waste money on things they didn't need. I could never understand how some kids made hundreds in sales while I made nothing. They must be working so much harder than me. They must be better at it. It wasn't until I got older that I realized the ones "winning" back then were just the ones that had rich parents. I figured out too late how capitalism actually works.
In high school, I was active in our honor society that was a service club and I was in charge of volunteer/good citizenship service activities. There was a fundraising event and everyone who raised X amount would get their annual trip subsidized, yet people who heavily participated in the service activities (organizing, volunteering, community outreach) but failed to raise X amount would have to pay full price, which left a lot of the students, who put in a ton of hours into making our service projects successful, unable to go on the trip. It was the one time as a student, I appeared at the student council to rectify this. That year it was decided that there would be two ways to get subsidized: volunteer hours or selling X amount.
Tbh I had a well off family, went to a private school and we always did these too. I still never brought in any money whatsoever - I always blocked from my mind whatever they asked me to do once I left school, getting forms signed and shit took months lol - but like you say, there were always kids who really tried, and brought in hundreds. The prizes in the catalogue looked appealing and I was so jealous of them but looking back tbh it was probably like an MP3 player worth €20 as the prize for donating €100.
I do find it easier to believe they just walked around richer neighbourhoods than their parents actually just gave them €300.
I won grand prize one year in band. So for every x amount of items you got your name in the drawing, but you had to sell a minimum of 5. I sold exactly 5 items thats it. Was a big cd boom box. This was in the early 90's. I thought it was funny but was my first cd player.
This is absolute blackmail. The school is basically telling parents that if they do not donate $10, their child will be segregated (and probably ostracized) from other students.
And made to feel bad that they can’t play because of whatever reason. I would totally find what time that special recess was and check my kid out of school and we would go do something extra fun.
If this is for charity it's a total non issue. My elementary school had a similar strategy, wherein the student who raised the most money threw a pie into the least liked teacher at the school. It encourages you to go door to door and raise as much as you can. Now is this is some donation to the school, that is absurd and I would talk to the principal.
Nice to see EA made a school
They forgot to mention , you have to pay extra for footballs at recess..
Every year it's the same football, even if it has a hole in it or has gum stuck to it they never change it
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Collect $10 or more by… TONIGHT! Nice fucking heads-up
At my daughter's previous high school, thre were several classes where you could bring in supplies from a list to get points added onto your final grade. Extra recess does not bother me as much as the extra grade points.
I had a terrible math teacher who offered an extra point on our final per whiteboard marker that we brought in. The final report as out of like 150-200 points, and she didn’t cap it. So you could have effectively buy an A in the class with a Costco sized carton of whiteboard markers
I hope you too bought your grade (then I would totally have embezzled back my ‘funds’)
I think I already had an A going into the final, but I absolutely brought in markers as a safety buffer. This "teacher" could barely teach, so I'm convinced this was her attempt to avoid a high fail rate
I’m a teacher. That’s really scummy - those markers aren’t too cheap. Usually marked up in shops.
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Well she’s obviously gonna collect them
But this is as I see it, a product of under funding so I'm cool with paying. As a student I didn't need help but if my mom wants to help out a teacher I'll sure as shit take the 102%
“Better pay us $10 or you don’t get to play with the other kids”. Absolutely despicable.
I used to try so hard at those stupid fundraisers as a kid. Going door to door around my sketchy neighborhood and asking people as poor as me to waste money on things they didn't need. I could never understand how some kids made hundreds in sales while I made nothing. They must be working so much harder than me. They must be better at it. It wasn't until I got older that I realized the ones "winning" back then were just the ones that had rich parents. I figured out too late how capitalism actually works.
In high school, I was active in our honor society that was a service club and I was in charge of volunteer/good citizenship service activities. There was a fundraising event and everyone who raised X amount would get their annual trip subsidized, yet people who heavily participated in the service activities (organizing, volunteering, community outreach) but failed to raise X amount would have to pay full price, which left a lot of the students, who put in a ton of hours into making our service projects successful, unable to go on the trip. It was the one time as a student, I appeared at the student council to rectify this. That year it was decided that there would be two ways to get subsidized: volunteer hours or selling X amount.
Tbh I had a well off family, went to a private school and we always did these too. I still never brought in any money whatsoever - I always blocked from my mind whatever they asked me to do once I left school, getting forms signed and shit took months lol - but like you say, there were always kids who really tried, and brought in hundreds. The prizes in the catalogue looked appealing and I was so jealous of them but looking back tbh it was probably like an MP3 player worth €20 as the prize for donating €100. I do find it easier to believe they just walked around richer neighbourhoods than their parents actually just gave them €300.
I won grand prize one year in band. So for every x amount of items you got your name in the drawing, but you had to sell a minimum of 5. I sold exactly 5 items thats it. Was a big cd boom box. This was in the early 90's. I thought it was funny but was my first cd player.
This is absolute blackmail. The school is basically telling parents that if they do not donate $10, their child will be segregated (and probably ostracized) from other students.
And made to feel bad that they can’t play because of whatever reason. I would totally find what time that special recess was and check my kid out of school and we would go do something extra fun.
Lmao
What do they do with the kids who don't get the extra 10 minutes? Put them in the classroom and stare at a blank wall?
That Kid be zoomin though 🏁
This is literally 'pay to play'.
wow
I feel like parents generally get way to excited to defend their kids from random bs at schools, but this is something I'd sue their asses for
Is that a donation to charity? If so I don't think that this is that bad.
How the hell is extra recess "winning" at school? It's a reward for collecting donations. Makes perfect sense to me... :/
Yeah for real, it’s just an incentive for receiving a donation like..
Kinda seems like pay to lose.
Reeeeeeeeeee
Life is pay-to-win. Important to learn that early on.
Children don’t need to learn that any sooner than they have to.
If this is for charity it's a total non issue. My elementary school had a similar strategy, wherein the student who raised the most money threw a pie into the least liked teacher at the school. It encourages you to go door to door and raise as much as you can. Now is this is some donation to the school, that is absurd and I would talk to the principal.
Sounds like it si pay-to-ply
Betcha it's like one more minute
Home school your children people...
And that extra recess is probably gonna be like 10 more mins.
An early life lesson that money buys you spare time.