Pros and cons for school fundraisers?

Answer 1

Pros:

1. Fundraisers can help fund for a school's many programs (sports, school trips, extracurricular activities, products to sell), school supplies, equipment, science laboratory necessities, promote environmental awareness, voting, yearbook, promote vital learning among students, and even help expand the school with new rooms and buildings.

2. Improve selling skills, the ability to work in teams, instilling the importance in community and charity, and encourages creativity.

3. A good way to develop future job skills (communication, persuasion, quality and quantity, teamwork, sales and service know-hows) and enrich job resumes.

Cons:

1. Anybody can create fundraisers or join with the assumed purpose of joining such fundraisers, especially when that somebody's class would have a club (Marketing, Japanese, Spanish, JROTC, Band) and that class encourages ANYBODY to participate or join that club. Joining does not necessary mean that that person joining will use the pros of doing the fundraisers since they aren't monitored thoroughly.

2. To join can truly be a way for somebody to misuse collecting funds from students solely for their own purposes. Like, a member can FORGE names and the amount collected from a student (Example : Joe Schmo $5.00) on some list, whether Joe had been approached by that member or not. Joe will then be billed with that amount of $5.00. The member can write it in pen so Joe's name won't be erased and the leader of the fundraiser would not believe that Joe's name has been forged on that fund bill. Investigating on whether a fund bill has had forged signatures or not does not exist. That way, the fundraiser would only care about the number of signatures and amounts collected rather than whether people are being ripped off for a fundraiser that they never have been asked to donate.

a: A member uses a tactic of forging signatures to one up his/her fellow fund members on how many signatures from students they get and how much has been "donated". Of course, the members don't keep the money for themselves otherwise they will get into trouble by their leader for having alot of signatures but the amount of money collected does not equal to what amount is calculated later on.

b: Or a member can pretty much create a make-believe fund bill, so that member or non-member posing as some club member can pretty much forge people's names and amounts that they "donated", collect that amount ALL FOR THEMSELVES, and nobody will ever investigate such operations. But, it does happen alot in school and beyond school.

3. A school bully, troublemaker, outcast, anybody with enough brains and tactics can operate these things. And these "fundraisers" don't get investigated. Students can get suspended, expelled, thrown in jail, or serve detention for fighting, public displays of affection, bullying, vandalizing, assaulting, etc. Nobody gets punished for creating make-believe fundraisers nor forging false collections for that fundraisers as long as the forgers don't keep the money. The leader would probably see it as a waste of time. They care more about raising money for these fundraisers rather than whether the members are misusing these fundraisers.

-Added: I was victimized by these false fundraisers back in high school; John F. Kennedy High School 1995 in the island of Guam. These "fundraisers" are like Panhandling 101, a great guide to teaching people how to rip off others in the future, like a false claim of a family dying of cancer, the notorious Nigerian scams, phone calls made to anyone about "winning a subscription to some magazine" that you have never signed up for, FaceBook postings scams, credit card scams, scholarships scams, business loan scams. Situations such as that where you are asked to give them your bank account number, email addresses, phone number, social security number, routing number, all very important information that you really, really need to protect yourself and hide from anyone, even from your own grandmother if you have to. I was victimized by Alan Soriano of the African American Club, who collected $25 from me, Susan Lujan and Doris Rosario from Read-A-Thon (like I said, anybody, even a school bully, can forge your signature.), forged my signature NOT ASKING BUT DEMANDING that I pay them each $2 for a club that they don't even take seriously. Read-A-Thon was I'm sure about promoting reading among students as well as raising funds for school books, etc. Those girls are more likely people who belong in jail rather than members of a school club. Wherever you come from, I'm sure that a school "fundraiser" can be, or have been, just as shady as mine are. They can also be ignored as well if they are as shady, too. Either investigate, take these "fundraisers" as the pinnacle of forming future scam artists whether you like it or not, and/or totally avoid them like the plague and go on about your own business and life. Either way, never stop working hard to protect yourself.