Chocolate War: Pre Reading

3. Write a blog about your opinions on school fundraisers.  Discuss personal experiences within your blog.

There is nothing wrong with a school fundraiser. They help the school or other events/charities. Now I would have a problem with it if it were mandatory. Some kids can’t go to different houses selling something. They should not be thought off as something that you have to do even if you don’t want to. Sometimes they are completely useless. Selling some merchandise to improve the school seems petty. If it were me, personally instead of buying chrome books or ipads for the school, why couldn’t you donate all of that money to say cancer research, or heck some charities. How do you think kids in the 70s learned? They didn’t have the choice of going on Google that can tell you almost everything. No, they had to open up a dusty textbook to find the answers. Who is to say we couldn’t do that today. There are a lot of charities that could benefit from a couple hundred to thousand dollars. There is this one charity called Charity Water, which donates hundreds to thousands of gallons (depending on how much money you earned) of water to third world countries that cannot receive clean safe water. I believe that these charities and researches are more important than some technology for a school. Now, I am not saying I do not appreciate these goods. I just think that these goods are not as important as cancer or giving people what they need.

One of the fundraisers I have had was one at KIS where we sold sweet frog cards for deals. Well back then I had tried to sell a lot to get the grand prize, which would be a BMX bike or an ipad. They also take us to sweet frogs or skate land in a limo. That’s nice and all, but the fact that we use the money to use for ourselves make me feel like I was being selfish if I was to sell the cards. But I guess it is all up to whoever has the choice to sell or not.