Another School fundraiser????

My daughter is 7 years old and of course at the impressionable time in her life. She's very easy to deal with but there has got to be families going though hell with this topic. I'm talking about school fund raisers, you know the ones I mean sell this hawk that and if you sell this many we will give you something you can most likely purchase at the dollar store.
    
     O.k. now don't jump on the well it's for a good cause train and I'm a terrible person just yet. I am not saying that these are not needed for funding the school as well as helping libraries fill their shelves with new literature. What I am getting at is there are other ways to do this and not center out a child.

My thoughts on this are, why not at the beginning of entering your child into school an email address is taken from parents via on of the many forms given to us to fill out asking if it would be o.k. to forward fund raising activities through email to the students? The bulk of the people purchasing today do it usually by credit or debit card and most of it is done by family (the purchasing that is). I don't know about you but it has been years since I've seen a child at my door soliciting...

 This would not only make things run smoothly, there is no chance of theft or loss. I have also placed orders that I have not received and it is a major deal trying to get it straightened out to the point I just said the heck with it. This being done online alleviates that as well because it would be all tracked online. There are children that I'm sure also cannot afford to purchase items that are being sent home and it must make the families feel bad as I've had times I couldn't afford to waste money on items at times. Is it just me or do any of you feel the same way??  I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter.