Jr High Fundraiser

[starmac]

Back a century or so ago when I was in 8th grade, we had a school fundraiser. Iirc it was selling magazine subscriptions, I am not 100% sure on that though. I do remember that there was a choice of prizes the top seller could pick out of, and a friend of mine won and got a new Winchester 94 comemerative , seems like it was the John Wayne.

I wonder if a guy could get any interest stirred up in todays world to do such a thing?

[waksupi]

We did fundraisers in school. I still see kids doing car washes to raise money locally.

[472x1B/A]

Heck, around here they just want you to give money without having to do anything. Hmmm, I wonder if that's why 136k people are leaving Ill. each year?

[country gent]

Our FFA sold fruit Oranges grapefruit tangerines every winter to raise funds. The Band sold candy. Some others sold magazines. One thing I never cared for was the small percentage that was actually the groups from each sales. The FFA developed contacts in flordia for the fruit. sales were made the order placed then when the semi semis came in the fruit was all sorted and then distributed. We did away with the middleman and dealt direct. So all the profit went to the FFA

[Omega]

Back a century or so ago when I was in 8th grade, we had a school fundraiser. Iirc it was selling magazine subscriptions, I am not 100% sure on that though. I do remember that there was a choice of prizes the top seller could pick out of, and a friend of mine won and got a new Winchester 94 comemerative , seems like it was the John Wayne.

I wonder if a guy could get any interest stirred up in todays world to do such a thing?Mention giving away a gun for a school fund raiser and you'll find yourself suspended right along with that kid that chewed his poptart into a gun shape.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

At the risk of you fella's calling me a "Dandy Boy", I will tell about the fund raisers we did in High School.
We Sang and Danced for money, LOL.
I was in a extra curricular activity called, Swing Choir. We had costumes and props. We'd preform for civic groups during their fundraisers and they would donate to our High School Choir program.

[starmac]

Well I do not even remember what the fundraiser was for, we had several different ones all through school, and at least at the time my kids graduated they still did. It was the prize from the 8th grade fundraiser that I remembered and am talking about.

[RGrosz]

Our FFA sold fruit Oranges grapefruit tangerines every winter to raise funds. The Band sold candy. Some others sold magazines. One thing I never cared for was the small percentage that was actually the groups from each sales. The FFA developed contacts in flordia for the fruit. sales were made the order placed then when the semi semis came in the fruit was all sorted and then distributed. We did away with the middleman and dealt direct. So all the profit went to the FFA

My Ag teacher thought selling fruit was silly. We didn't sell any. We had about 15 acres of school land that we farmed. Corn a couple of years and beans the next. That's how we got money for FFA. My senior year we had a new principal and he tried to take all the profits to the land and give to all the clubs and activities in school equity. When the families heard about that, they protested to the school board, the order was rescinded. I guess a lot of farmers had some power back in the late '60's. Don't even think my old school even has a FFA anymore after the merge again. After the first merge they tried to do away with it, and now that they merged again. I haven't heard anything about it or the school that they become. 'Course I moved out of state.
Rob'

[popper]

About 4 or 5th grade, collected old newspapers to get money to buy an airplane. Didn't have any other 'fund' raisers. Nowdays the G.K. ask for a few $100 for lessons for the orchestra. To be paid to school teachers for private lessons! I bypass all the cookie sales at the store, just a few pennies of proceeds go to the 'project'.

[bob208]

around here class trips, church groups, little league and others sold subs. I would always get 2 at work bring them home. that way I won twice. helped a group and scored points with the wife she did not have to cook that night.

[starmac]

The school my kids went to, raised money for a senior trip. The school itself had nothing to do with it, as it was not a school sanctioned event. The kids would start raising money their freshman year and continue on till their senior year, It depended a lot on what they did as to who was the parents that were voted in to go, but usually including contracting fence jobs, sometimes painting a house, etc etc. Then their senior year they would research and vote on where to go, left over money was divided between them for spending money. At one time the school board voted to take the left over money and give it to the next class, that idea went south quick as it was not a school sanctioned event of any kind. They would usually spend a week in Hawaii, Bahamas or something of that nature.

[MaryB]

Candy and popcorn sales for most of the kids, FFA does the fruit thing(I was disappointed in the last I bought, it was old and dried out)... being a charter school they get little state or federal funding

[starmac]

The ffa at the school my kids went to always sold sausage from Eades, some of the best pan sausage you could buy. They sold it in 5 pound batches and knew I was always food for several.

[KCSO]

The local school PMO big time. They don't want guns even mentioned in school they moved hunter safety out of the school and they called us to report our grandson was drawing pictures of guns in school. Then they come around every year to the shop asking us to put an ad in the year book!

[xdmalder]

The local school PMO big time. They don't want guns even mentioned in school they moved hunter safety out of the school and they called us to report our grandson was drawing pictures of guns in school. Then they come around every year to the shop asking us to put an ad in the year book!

In Bloomfield? I take it you are part of Gunsmoke.

[jsizemore]

I live in east Wake county NC. We got the usual car washes, cookie, cake and candy sales. We also have rifle raffles from adjoining Johnston county and our local JROTC has air rifle practice and storage at the high school. You can carry concealed (with the CCR license) to drop off your children and park your car in the parking lot with your firearm secured in the trunk. 1/4 mile behind the HS is a deer stand overlooking a soybean field beside the Kioti equipment depot.

Things be lookin up

[mold maker]

In the next town SE of here the emergency services combined to raffle off 28 guns this past summer. It's a semi-annual fundraising event.
The local Ford dealer advertises "Buy a truck, get a gun."
Our schools may be corrupted but the adults know better.

[Dark Helmet]

Local highschool bands sell a band discount card, mostly for discounts at restaurants. 10% off a couple of meals more than pay for the $5 they charge for it. FFA raises plants and shrubs to sell.

[Lloyd Smale]

believe it or not a small school that my buddys daughter goes to about 10 miles from here for two years in a row has had a knife sale to raise money for there sports programs. its in farm country but Id bet theres not to many schools today that would do that.

[richbug]

The Junior High(2 are mine) and Varsity Wrestlers at my kid's school do a gun raffle as a fund raiser to pay for uniforms, mats, entry fees, etc.. They gave away about $3500 worth of guns this year.

[Ickisrulz]

There are plenty of kids today that would love to win a rifle. But that's a moot point since 99% of school-aged kids are not legally able to buy one.

As far as fund raisers, we are lousy with them. Our schools start sending the kids door-to-door right after school starts selling over-priced candy bars. Then there is the Scouts with their $20 tins of popcorn. Some organizations have car washes that feature high school girls shaking their stuff along side of the street. There are also the coaches hawking goods outside of Walmart for their sports teams...the players are no where to be seen.

[KCSO]

I do the repair and restoration.