Since I am in charge of the student council at school, I am given the task of doing one fund raiser per year. A normal fund raiser that we do involves a penny war. If you don't what a penny war, here is a brief explanation. At school we divide the school by grade levels. One wants to put pennies in their own jars, for pennies count for you. All other money is put into other's jars, because they count against them. Which ever grade has the most money (when all the other money is subtracted from the pennies) is the winner. Now what some of the student don't quite understand is that every grade will be in the hole. The point is to be less in the hole than everyone else. It is sort of funny to see how students react to winning or being in second or third place. Each grade has its own strategies as well. Now we are about a week into the two-week drive. The seventh graders are almost overly excited and bring in tons of pennies and the don't really understand that to win, you need to put money into other jars. Eighth graders are sort of weird and don't participate a whole lot, so it is whatever money they have, they might donate. Ninth graders have to prove that they are the best and usually win. However, it is done by trickery. They usually store up their money in a classroom, while putting in money here and there to make it look like they are trying. Then on the last day, they bring all the money up and decide where the silver coins and dollars go in order to give them the win. All the students usually get pretty involved. Our cause this year is really personal to the school. One of the staff member's son got injured in a car accident and has major brain trauma. The money raised will go to his family to help pay for medical bills. I love when we can raise money for the people we know around us. Our goal this year is $750, which isn't too bad for our small school of 200 students. If our goal is reached, the winning class officers will get to duct tape myself and another teacher to the wall for about 2 hours. I hope they can do it. I don't mind doing things like this if it is for a good cause.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Penny Wars
Since I am in charge of the student council at school, I am given the task of doing one fund raiser per year. A normal fund raiser that we do involves a penny war. If you don't what a penny war, here is a brief explanation. At school we divide the school by grade levels. One wants to put pennies in their own jars, for pennies count for you. All other money is put into other's jars, because they count against them. Which ever grade has the most money (when all the other money is subtracted from the pennies) is the winner. Now what some of the student don't quite understand is that every grade will be in the hole. The point is to be less in the hole than everyone else. It is sort of funny to see how students react to winning or being in second or third place. Each grade has its own strategies as well. Now we are about a week into the two-week drive. The seventh graders are almost overly excited and bring in tons of pennies and the don't really understand that to win, you need to put money into other jars. Eighth graders are sort of weird and don't participate a whole lot, so it is whatever money they have, they might donate. Ninth graders have to prove that they are the best and usually win. However, it is done by trickery. They usually store up their money in a classroom, while putting in money here and there to make it look like they are trying. Then on the last day, they bring all the money up and decide where the silver coins and dollars go in order to give them the win. All the students usually get pretty involved. Our cause this year is really personal to the school. One of the staff member's son got injured in a car accident and has major brain trauma. The money raised will go to his family to help pay for medical bills. I love when we can raise money for the people we know around us. Our goal this year is $750, which isn't too bad for our small school of 200 students. If our goal is reached, the winning class officers will get to duct tape myself and another teacher to the wall for about 2 hours. I hope they can do it. I don't mind doing things like this if it is for a good cause.
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