Every fall I'm barraged by friends and family requesting me to purchase some expensive piece of crap that I don't need in the name of a fundraiser. 10 percent goes to little Johnny's school! You have to buy something to support the kids!
Most of the time, I grudgingly hunt out the cheapest thing in the catalog, order it, and be on my way.
Then my daughter started school. School that I pay for. Every. Single. Month. We were about a month into the school year when her teacher sent home a fundraiser.
Are you fricken kidding me?!
What is my tuition going towards? I have a really hard time doing a fundraiser and bumming money off friends and family to pay for "extra supplies" when I pay tuition, provide a snack and drink for the entire class once a month and have the pleasure of viewing the teacher's classroom wish list every time I drop off and pick up my child (there's no bus either).
We don't send her to an elite preschool or anything like that. She goes to the town's preschool, which is attached to the elementary school. I feel like between the wish list, the tuition money and the mandatory snack-sharing, it should be more than enough. She's only in school 2 days a week for 2.5 hours a day! Each month she gets at least 1 day off for a holiday, a professional development day or something like that. I just don't get it.
I realize that little kids use a lot of "art supplies", but I would think that would be taken into account with the tuition. Surely, they don't just use it to pay the teachers. They don't have building expenses since they operate out of the back of the elementary school, which is funded with tax money. It's really just teacher salaries and classroom supplies. I'm at a complete loss.
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