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by Nom de guerre on March 6th, 2007

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What do you think of young children being asked by their schools to go door-to-door selling chocolate, wrapping paper, magazines, etc., to raise money for the schools?
Do you usually buy this stuff when a kid comes to your door?

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  • by Fun on March 6th, 2007

    Fun

    My mother never let me sell that junk. She let me sell just enough cookies in Girl Scouts to get the patch but other than that its annoying.

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  • by VivaNOLA on March 6th, 2007

    VivaNOLA

    I usually buy, but we don't let our children go door-to-door. There's just something unseemly about it. It's like nerf panhandling.

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  • by Gideon on March 6th, 2007

    Gideon

    I always try to buy something because the child's out there doing what he was asked and I had to do the same thing. Ever try to sell Catholic school raffle tickets in a Mormon neighborhood?

    But I agree with most of the people here. Asking kids to do this is unfair to them and to people without kids who are hit hard during the holidays to buy from everyone's child.

    The money is there. If it's not, people have to get out and vote so that it is there. A child should not be a door-to-door salesman in order to get an education.

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  • by JAMMco... its complicated... on March 6th, 2007

    JAMMco... its complicated...

    These are fund raisers to help raise money for school functions, activities, etc. that are not funded through Federal or State dollars (which is shrinking annually). The instructions on these are for the parents to read, and the instructions always say do not go door to door to people you don't know.

    Most children feel comfortable in their own neighborhood knocking on their neighbors doors, or their parents taking it to work and asking their co-workers.

    I have no problem if a neighborhood kid I know asks me to buy it, I know the kid isn't pocketing the money, I know it's for a good cause. I also hope that since I bought from my neighbors kid, they will buy from my kids when the time comes around.

    I think it's a wonderful way for the school to get the extra money without really having to 'beg' for it from the neighborhoods and parents.

    Ask yourself, how many of you have written a check directly to their kids school instead of doing a fund raiser? None of you. How many people even thought of donating to the school a monotary if not for the fund raiser coming home with the kids? None. If they didn't do the fund raisers, they would get no contributions from parents other than the ones volunteering their time... and time doesn't pay the bills and time doesn't buy equipment. If you aren't monotarily supporting your school any other way besides tax dollars, don't complain about fund raisers.

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  • by NutritionMom on March 6th, 2007

    NutritionMom

    I have 3 school-age children and I HATE that the school asks them to do it. (Especially my 6th grade son who cannot eat sugar or milk and he was REQUIRED to sell chocolate bars to go on his class trip) Sometimes my husband and I will buy and ask the grandparents if they want to, but never let the kids go door-to-door

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  • by In London from 3-31 to 4-7--GTA Master on March 14th, 2007

    In London from 3-31 to 4-7--GTA Master

    I had to do this when I went to catachism( sp?)(Catholic religion classes). I hated it so much, they shouldn't make kids do this at all. I never wanted to go door to door, making people buy my candy, and neither did my mom, so she just ended up giving me like 30 dollars and we kept the chocolate for ourselves. No one bought the chocolate anyway, it was pointless.

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  • by Babycakes on March 6th, 2007

    Babycakes

    It is too dangerous a world to have kids at any age go door to door. they could be dragged inside a house and no one would know. We are living in a very sick world where it seems to just get worse.

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  • by DavidHume on March 6th, 2007

    DavidHume

    It's a disgrace. If enough people refuse to participate or support such rubbish, maybe the schools will get a better system for funding. This is essentially begging.

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  • by smart9426 on March 6th, 2007

    smart9426

    Thats a picnic compared to what my kids were asked to do at Primary school -clean up a local open space! What are we paying local councils for?

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  • by cristnalyn on March 6th, 2007

    cristnalyn

    They send these things home with my kids too but our school district strictly prohibits door to door selling so you end up having to hit up the same relatives over and over again. With 2 kids I have to beg like 6 times a year. My relatives are going to start avoiding me becuase I am always hitting them up to buy something. It is so annoying!

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  • by Anonymous on March 6th, 2007

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    This is a pet-peeve of mine also. We live in an urban-eclectic type of neighborhood where it's not exactly ideal to have the kids going door to door and families like ours where all of our siblings have just as many kids as we do, it's not like we can all buy stuff from each others kids... The best that we can do is divvy up the fundraisers and purchase our own wrapping paper supply and small gifts for friends...

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  • by R U Sirius on March 6th, 2007

    R U Sirius

    I'm not happy with this at all. Dangling a class trip in front of our childrens faces. You know how kids love to go on these trips.

    Going door to door these days is just about as dangerous as waiting at the bus-stop. Our PTA's should really put a stop to this. Schools should find other ways to raise funds. I'd be happy to help the school have car washes on the weekends or pancake dinners. Selling door-door not only is dangerous but a waste of our time.

    Parents are the ones selling these anyways. Everytime I go to work I'm either getting candy bars shoved in my face or those girl scout cookies.

    Good question and it's struck a nerve. (and I only have a 3 year old)

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  • by Nickname on August 23rd, 2009

    Nickname

    Mother would not allow me to go door to door for safety and tackiness reasons, but I would sell to family and friends at our riding stable.

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  • by roadpup2 on April 25th, 2007

    roadpup2

    I buy the stuff because I know the children who are selling it, but I think it is a dangerous practice to send children around to sell items. There have been cases of children being murdered while they went door-to-door. For a few pennies more taxes, the practice could be dropped.

    Many times, the supplier of the mewrchandise makes most of the money. Schools should not use their students to raise funds.

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