WTF is this happy crappy?

[cannongal]

I'm with Cracker on this one. When my kids were in 5^th grade, I chaired fund raising for a 5 day camp the kids were to attend at the end of the year. The cost per kid was roughly $290 at the beginning of the year. By raising around $8,000, we were able to get the cost down to roughly $260 per kid and kids had an opportunity to further reduce their own cost (by selling car wash coupons etc.). One kid sold so many coupons his cost was $5.00.

Holy shit-are those numbers right? Were there roughly 260 kids in the 5^th grade for that school? I would be totally schitzo with that many parents to deal with.

When my kids were in 5^th they got sent to a wilderness camp for a week. We had to sign a contract stating that each of our children would put in 25 hrs towards fundraising efforts and the parents had to do at least 10. If you didn't fulfill the contract your child didn't go-no exceptions. We had six months and like a dozen or so fundraisers to choose from. It was easy and the trips ended up being completely paid for through the fundraisers. Our elementary school is a hell of a lot smaller though, between the 2 5^th grade classes, there was a total of 31 kids.