Saturday, November 24, 2007
How About It Parent Group and others
I read your comment anonymous. you ask where are the parent groups, and others. i'd like to know that too.if you read back on this blog to oct 12th you;ll see i did ask if anyone was interested in fund raising. we got home with our 2 grandsons at least 3 different ways to raise money in 1 week. i really do appreciate the efforts being made by all the parents. at the same time it is frustrating to say the least when i know that the idea i brought to them would make all of those other labor intensive ones obsolete. it makes you wonder how serious they really are. i have a way to try it out for free and experiment with a 100% money back guarantee and no takers hmmm......... the offer still stands to anyone willing to make the plunge. you don't have to answer here if you don't want to. give me a call or i can meet you at school or dunks or whatever. if it's easier i can come to your house or meet with a group it is up to you but i'd love to try to help get some serious money comming in. then i guess you guys would have to decide where you';d want to spend it. i think that would be the fun part don';t you? oh ya by the way i was asking about the football game for thanksgiving and what did i see on fox 25 but a story on the holbrook/ west bridgewater game. pretty cool. i hope someone who knows how to do it can put some sports from the high school and maybe even town soccer or baseball/softball on the web. i bet you'd get more support from the townspeople in general if they had more exposure.
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The Holbrook Elementary Parent Group is jus a clique. If you don't like their ideas they don't like you. So much for that being about the kids.
They have a fundraiser that is selling rafel tickets and they may not have even raise enough to pay the prizes. Why were none of the tickets numbered, why was there no lisence number from the State Treasure to keep it fair and accurate. Where does all that money they raise go.
What happened to the Friends of Holbrook group? People in this town give time and money to these groups and they don't publish what they do and how they help.
I am done, until we change the people who run the organizaions, the clubs, the schools and the town government, we will never get out from under this cloud. IT IS TIME TO CHANGE HOW WE DO BUSINESS
Many years ago, I was a part of the Music parents group. We ran telethons, caberets nights, held concerts at the local churches to raise donations for the programs. Everything was above boards and for the kids. The kids had the ideas and we helped them. It was their show. I remember some students coming back and wanting to raise money for the show and a certain gentleman saying it would never work. It was that loud screaming music that if they took two words out of the english language, it wouldn't exist. There were a lot of former Holbrook students performing in these bands. I personally found it obscene. After expenses, these young men that proposed this idea had raised more money then any other venture. The man who was against it from the beginning was none other then Paul Stigas. When those two young men presented the money to the parents group, he got up from his chair, shook hands with two young men and apologized for doubting them. Now nobody called the State Treasure in those days or questioned where the money went. It was not a clique. It was a bunch of people just trying to help the kids. We didn't publish what we did. We published what the kids did. All of us adults stayed in the backgroud. It was never about us. Town goverment should have no part of this. Well, I think it is correct to keep a fair and accurate system for what amounts to a lottery. I have to ask the question again, When is it going to be about the kids? Sick of it all misses the point here. She is lumping the kids into how the town does business. When the people of the town of Holbrook stop lumping its children into the catagory of business and start looking at them as the future, they will be further ahead.
Jake,
The point of it was that the Parent Group is not about the kids any more. If you don't have children in school anymore maybe you did not see the letter sent home to the parents.
The idea behind forcing people to buy lottery tickets is unfair. Trying to guilt people into giving more time is unjust.
When I sat at those meetings other mothers made suggestions about fundraisers. The ideas would cost no money and have all profit. These other women awere shoot down becuase the "leadership" did not like the ideas. They had there own ideas and only want to tell people what to do.
When did Parent Group become a social status position? Giving prizes to kids who do a good job fundraising is kind. But buying them i pods???
It is hard to seperate the Town politics from the social groups who support the schools because they also play the same games as town hall.
Don't believe me, ask Sue Wright. She has been at those meetings and ask her about the lack of interest in any ideas but their own.
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