AED 200 final paper
Student Fundraising
Student Fundraising
Every day in America’s schools, from elementary on to college, students engage in fund raising activities. Through activities such as selling everything from cookie dough to household goods, and sponsoring community events student and student organizations support a variety of worthy causes. These causes range from funding the school library to supporting local animal shelters. Even though some people may criticize schools fundraising as “gone too far”, but actually Student fundraising are beneficial to students/schools, communities, and the nation future.
Although some claim that students would be safer and better served without fund raising activities, they only cite their annoyance with fund raising and an unfortunate tragedy as arguments against fund raising. While it is true that an 11-year-old New Jersey boy was murdered as he went door-to-door selling wrapping paper for a school fundraiser this alone does not constitute enough evidence that fund raising is bad and students and schools should abandon it or else risk murder for every student. Blaming fund raising for the murder of the student ignores the role that parents play in raising and guiding their children. It was not the school 's fault that the child went soliciting door to door in a strange neighborhood. It was the parents’ responsibility to heed repeated school warnings and prevent their son from selling alone in a neighborhood to people he did not know. Schools have long broadcast the message against allowing children to sell alone and door to door. The child 's parents should have known the whereabouts of their son on a Saturday afternoon and should have reviewed the rules of safe fund raising with him and made sure he understood them. Thus a few unfortunate and preventable incidents should not take away the opportunities of all, because student fund raising activities first and foremost benefit the students who engage in them.
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Student Fundraising
Every day in America’s schools, from elementary on to college, students engage in fund raising activities. Through activities such as selling everything from cookie dough to household goods, and sponsoring community events student and student organizations support a variety of worthy causes. These causes range from funding the school library to supporting local animal shelters. Even though some people may criticize schools fundraising as “gone too far”, but actually Student fundraising are beneficial to students/schools, communities, and the nation future.
Although some claim that students would be safer and better served without fund raising activities, they only cite their annoyance with fund raising and an unfortunate tragedy as arguments against fund raising. While it is true that an 11-year-old New Jersey boy was murdered as he went door-to-door selling wrapping paper for a school fundraiser this alone does not constitute enough evidence that fund raising is bad and students and schools should abandon it or else risk murder for every student. Blaming fund raising for the murder of the student ignores the role that parents play in raising and guiding their children. It was not the school 's fault that the child went soliciting door to door in a strange neighborhood. It was the parents’ responsibility to heed repeated school warnings and prevent their son from selling alone in a neighborhood to people he did not know. Schools have long broadcast the message against allowing children to sell alone and door to door. The child 's parents should have known the whereabouts of their son on a Saturday afternoon and should have reviewed the rules of safe fund raising with him and made sure he understood them. Thus a few unfortunate and preventable incidents should not take away the opportunities of all, because student fund raising activities first and foremost benefit the students who engage in them.
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