RedAngie
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A minor league hockey team and a mortgage lender sponsored an event where teachers who volunteered to participate could scramble for money on the ice between periods of the hockey game.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna8704
“A group of South Dakota teachers scrambled for cash between periods of a minor league hockey game to help raise money for their classrooms, a promotional event that is being criticized over its optics and concerns over teacher pay and shortages around the country.
Ten teachers competed for $5,000 in the “Dash for Cash” on Saturday, in a promotion put on by the Sioux Falls Stampede Hockey Club and CU Mortgage Direct, a local lender.
Videos showed teachers on their knees scrambling to collect dollar bills in the middle of the rink, many stuffing the money in their shirts, as spectators watched.
The event drew widespread criticism after the videos went viral online, with critics calling the competition demeaning.”
Many (almost all of whom were not present) are outraged and say the stunt was demeaning. From what I’ve read, not a single participant feels the same. They say it was a fun event in which they willingly chose to compete.
Thoughts?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna8704
“A group of South Dakota teachers scrambled for cash between periods of a minor league hockey game to help raise money for their classrooms, a promotional event that is being criticized over its optics and concerns over teacher pay and shortages around the country.
Ten teachers competed for $5,000 in the “Dash for Cash” on Saturday, in a promotion put on by the Sioux Falls Stampede Hockey Club and CU Mortgage Direct, a local lender.
Videos showed teachers on their knees scrambling to collect dollar bills in the middle of the rink, many stuffing the money in their shirts, as spectators watched.
The event drew widespread criticism after the videos went viral online, with critics calling the competition demeaning.”
Many (almost all of whom were not present) are outraged and say the stunt was demeaning. From what I’ve read, not a single participant feels the same. They say it was a fun event in which they willingly chose to compete.
Thoughts?