Post by shayp on Dec 3, 2013 9:59:30 GMT -5
So I usually try not to do this sort of thing but I am so mad! My daughter is always coming home with fundraiser stuff from school, it seems she brings home a new one once every two weeks. We only take part in a select few of them. I want her to know it's ok to help out when you see a good cause but not to feel obligated just because there is a need. I am trying to teach her a good balance on extending yourself without overdoing it. She needs to know that personal boundaries and saying no, even to a good cause, is ok. So I always let her pick the ones she wants to do based on the cause of the fundraiser.
Last month she came home with this magazine that had cookie dough for sale, and 40% of the money went to her school, (which is one of the top county schools in Northern Alabama but looks like it has been around since Jesus was a boy) 40% is a pretty good profit for the school, usually they get like 10-20%. So Kadence wants to do it so her school can start a remodel. Now, this part is MY FAULT! I am not the type of parent that does everything for their child and we had planned on going to this shopping center the coming up saturday and try to sale cookie dough. My mother (works at the courthouse) wanted to know if she could take the magazine to work with her the next day so Kadence tells her yes... Well, my mom ends up filling up the entire form at her work so there was no more room to sale. I told Kade to get another form from school and we would still try to sale as well, because it was HER fundraiser and I wanted her to do some of the work. She comes home and tells me they were out. I was like oh well, at least the school must be doing well with it and was proud. I asked Kade's teacher to call me when the cookie dough came in so I could come pick it up and take it to my mother's work.
Here is why I am soooo flippin' mad, I found out this morning that the cookie dough came in yesterday, and because Kadence wasn't there when it was sold she had no clue who she sold to. So every TEENAGER that walked up to her afterschool while she was waiting on me was telling her they bought some and she was passing it out to them. Guess she had a sub yesterday and that is why I wasn't called. The school is doing an investigation to find out who the group of kids were, although they think they have a pretty good idea they have to prove it. One of the only ways to do that is get my 7 year old in front of 13-16 year olds and ask her to point them out. Call me crazy but something about that just doesn't sit well with me. I am afraid she will be uncomfortable even with me there. Or point out a wrong kid, I mean she is 7 is she going to get it 100% right. I'm 28 and looked at most of them this morning and I am not sure if I passed them on the street if I could point out all of them again. Just as I am angry that it happened to my child I'm sure I would be angry if my child was accused and really didn't do it you know.
The school is trying to get some more cookie dough in for the people that my mom sold to, hope it gets here before Christmas. If not I am just going to have to pay almost $300 out of pocket to these poor people that bought cookie dough and expected to have it. I had a parent of one of the suspected kids, ask me why Kadence didn't know better, how she didn't know that they didn't buy any.. I was like really?!?! She is 7, wasn't there when ANY of it was sold, and your kid is 15, and you want to know how my child didn't know better?!?!?!? So anyways, I guess lesson learned Kadence should have went with my mother after school and sold so she could have maybe made those connections. I feel so bad for Kadence, the school, the people that bought the cookie dough, and some of the parents of the suspected children you can tell they are really upset their child might be involved. Thanks for letting me rant.