Fundraiser not fun

If you have a child in school (or in girl scouts or in boy scouts or on any other number of organizations) you've been asked to participate in a fundraiser, selling useless crap from a catalog. Crap that no one really wants. Let's be honest.

Especially this year. Our school went with a different company this year that sells such junk. Ugly wrapping paper, tacky seasonal ornaments, other useless bric-a-brac. Blech.

But what needles me is not the quality of the products being sold; it's the way that the people in charge of the fundraiser try to get the kids all hyped up about the piece-of-shit prizes they can win if they sell x number of items. (See above photo.) Our school even offers a "Hum-V ride to McDonald's" to students who sell a large number of items. There are also prizes awarded to the classroom that earns the most money, like a pizza party or doughnuts, etc. This all coming from a school that almost disbanded chess club because it is "too competitive." Go figure.