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[LoveBWVVBR]

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[Anne34]

Just a quick thought to the very valid points brought up about the tax implications, airing financial worries etc. What if you gifted 1/4 of the $ to each teachers "classroom"? I'm guessing that they spend quite a bit of their own $$ for their classroom use. Then each teacher could choose how he or she wanted to spend the $$ to best benefit their own classroom.

Just a thought.

I don't think I would have even considered the points people brought up so it's probably good that you posted to the Dis with your idea. That way you will at least be aware of potential arguments/problems when you talk to the board. Is there a person on the board that you trust and feel comfortable with who you could run your idea by before the meeting?

Regardless of the issues that might come up, Congratulations for getting such a great prize for your school, for all your hard work, and for your generosity towards and awareness of the struggles of the teachers in your child's school.

Our PTO usually gives each teacher $250 Target gift cards at the beginning of the school year to be used as they see fit. I'm sure you could do some sort of gift card (Amex, Visa or store) to make it work.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

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[FINFAN]

Congrat's!

 

[AmberHeartsDisney]

Awesome!

 

[dzorn]

Congradulations on the winning but I must agree with others why should a select group of teachers get the money. If I was a parent or a child that contributed to the contest I would be very upset that it did not benefit the school as a whole, but given to a select few.

It should be used for the students not the teachers personal use. Money can cause a lot of ill will especially when people do not agree with were it goes.

Denise in MI

 

[FredS]

I read the title of this thread and opened it to tell OP congratulations, assuming that they singlehandedly won this sum of money for a school. But Am I the only one who cringed to understand that OP coordinated the effort, but others contributed, but she stated "I won $5000 for DD's school" instead of the accurate "we won" (or maybe "I helped win . . .")

If you don't want to offend everyone in the school, I would think about the fact that others contributed to this and they are entitled to their opinions about how it should be spent. Yes, I've been involved in fundraising and other projects where I felt like I did 90% of the work, but I can't imagine ever claiming full credit.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

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[DisneyFan32WI]

That is really cool! I have tried to save those darn box tops for years, but I always end up throwing them out.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

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[mum4jenn]

What exactly did you have to do to win????
Our school collects tops but we have never heard of a contest for money...only bonus boxtops.

 

[rumrunnergirl]

Congrats on winning!!!

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

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[Marionnette]

Bingo! Buy, peel and enter seems so simple, but yet I'm the only one at our school who ever does it. Once I saw the contest, I knew that I needed other households to enter. I couldn't get anyone else to participate, so I worked it out myself by BEGGING for the people to at least make the accounts and then buying the products with the codes myself (with coupons, LOL! No worries...I was still "budget" about it). I was very stringent on making sure that I only entered codes for one acct. per household.

FWIW, it's one account per household so from now on you should enter either you or your DH. It would be awful to win a contest and then have the win invalidated because you had 2 entries from the same household That is why I had to beg the other parents to at least make me an acct. for their household. Again, how hard is it to do so...must be really tough because very few did.

I dont know. To me it seems as if you bent the rules. The letter of the rules stated one account per household. The spirit of the rules assumes that each household would have been entering their own codes. You kind of circumvented the contest's intentions by being the sole person who entered codes for numerous accounts. I understand that you did it for the school and not for your own personal gain. But am I the only one who thinks that this was not entirely on the up and up? If the people certifying the results of the contest see that the codes for all of those households were entered from the same isp, they may disqualify your school.

 

[happygirl]

No one followed the rule Copy and Paste people, Copy and Paste

 

[disneychrista]

No one followed the rule Copy and Paste people, Copy and Paste

LOL...but then the OP couldn't take her ball and go home

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

You know what? The OP really IS taking her ball and going home. This board never changes, and frankly I don't feel like having my good news turned into the debate of the day. I wholeheartedly regret sharing my good news on here because I should absolutely know by now that it never fails that someone has to interject something conspiratorial, negative, or downright false into these threads.

Oh, and FWIW, the rules were actually followed to the letter and the win was already vetted by the certifying body. Thanks for your concern, though!

 

[Belle0101]

No one followed the rule Copy and Paste people, Copy and Paste

See my scrolling tag?

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

There was a Boxtops for Ed. contest that I knew that we could win if we made a concerted effort. It took me a bit to get everyone to help me out, but we were notified this week that we won one of the 5K grand prizes I knew for about a month that we had won, but we just got the "official" word. I am really excited since my DD goes to a small school and we're always fundraising to meet our budget.

Since this is "found" money and I'm on the board of the school, I'm going to go to our monthly meeting tomorrow night with a proposal that we split the money 4 ways and give it to our 4 (vastly underpaid) teachers at our upcoming holiday program. This would mean the world to one of our teachers who is really struggling. Send me good vibes tomorrow night because I'm going to need them to get the rest of the board to say yes!! Anyways, I'm stoked about winning the $5000!

This was the original post, I had it saved, wanting to come back later and ask a few questions.

I know that the OP said that she contacted Boxtops but being a coordinator for many years, I found it interesting that you could use the funds however you wanted. I have been off the board and out of the school for many years and seriously was surprised. I was actually going to take a copy to the current PTO of the school so they could see if it was true. I am sure the money at our school would have been used different if this is true. Also sent a quick email off to Boxtops also.

 

[cm8]

This board never changes. I had forgotten why I didn't post on here anymore. I can assure you that absoluely no rules were violated, that the win has been vetted, and that I regret ever sharing my good news here. Everything on here has to turn into a debate so I've deleted my posts and moved on. I'm sure that you all will find some other banal subject to debate in no time.