Chocolate Raffle at preschool - would it upset you?

[MarioandLuigi]

I am fundraising co-ordinator for my preschool (have been for about three years as my different children have gone through). I have organised a chocolate raffle to raise some funds for Easter. We have had one for as long as I have een going (which is 7 years)

One of the parents who's child started at Christmas has complained that its a terrible idea because not all children have chocolate (her little boy included) because parents dont want them to. Aparently she is boycotting it.

Would it bother you? We dont buy our children easter eggs (but my Dad does) but I buy the tickets because I want to raise funds for the preschool. Its a charity run one so apart from funding there is no outside financial support.

Ridiculously PFB! Just console yourself that time will sort her out and 12 years down the line, a bit of chocolate will be the least of her worries (speaks the voice of wisdom 12 years on from preschool )

Shes being OTT. If something like this was being run on a weekly basis or something then I would see her point but as a one off fundraising event its fine. I find it difficult to believe that there are children who have no chocolate at all ever and if that is the case then they are certainly going to discover it as some point.

She is being petty, don't take her boycotting personally.

How petty.

I've bought tickets every year for the past 10 years for my childrens easter egg draw - this year for the first time we won a prize :)

That's ridiculous.

Our schools often have choccy tombolas; they stopped and people demanded them back! The key is parental control and a dash of comon: if your child wins big, take it away and ration it. And you kno- twice in a school yar will not hurt your child.

Two of mine are dairy intol & ASD so at risk of being unsympathetic, if they can cope.... (I just make sure I swap winnings for suitable stuff)

I think what's upsetting here is not her decision not to buy tickets, but her use of the word 'boycotting'! She's being completely OTT.

Some years ago, my children went to a school which had a yearly raffle. They sent home tickets with each child and asked us to sell them, or buy them ourselves. I don't take part in raffles (don't like gambling) but I didn't want to inflict my views on everyone else, so I just used to send them back again. There was no obligation to buy. Some years I put in a note saying I didn't want to buy any, but I was enclosing a donation (so they didn't think I was just being mean!) as I still wanted to support their fundraising.

I think this woman is trying to draw attention to herself and her views. I would just ignore her and move on.

Someone should buy one on her behalf. Imagine her face if she won!

And eat the winnings yourself? :)

Good idea onlion! Worth fixing the raffle for!

I would be upset - but only because my DD is very allergic to cows milk and so wouldn't be able to eat the chocolate

If there were any children with dairy allergies at the school, then I would try and make sure there was an equivalent to an egg available - dairy free eggs can sometimes be hard to come by but dairy free buttons are readily available in most supermarkets all year round. If a non allergic child won the dairy free prize it wouldn't do them any harm and they probably wouldn't be able to taste much of a difference anyway!

but I would not object to the raffle in principle, chocolate at Easter time is not going to hurt anyone (i already have my dairy free eggs - note the plural - ready for DD :))

Tell her if she wants to support the preschool by buying raffle tickets, if she wins you will make sure to replace the prize with a bag of carrots and a cucumber. and stuff your faces with the choccy yourselves

Don't respond to her at all. It will only fuel her 'campaign'.

Silly woman.

oh bless her little sense of self-importance.

I think you should say nothing, but add a cheap toy easter chick/craft kit.

Just because it would amuse me intensely to have her boycott be for even less of a reason.

I managed to get a dairy free egg. Might have been Waitrose? Definately saw some on the internet as well.

I'd tell everyone what she's done but in a sweet and passive aggressive way - "oh I hope I haven't offended you, it's just that Mrs Divvy has said she's boycotted the chocolate raffle fundraiser. Yes, boycotted. Wrote it on the tickets. Just didn't want to offend anyone else" etc etc, and then all the other parents get to hear what a knicker-ironing vinegar titted fool she is.

ask her if perhaps a neighbour or family member would like to buy a ticket instead

and pray your DC's don't get invited to her DC's birthday parties - they'd probably be joyless!

She's a twat.

Eh? When my DC were at pre-school I didn't give them chocolate or sweets (although I didn't stop relatives)

So I had won such a raffle I would have eaten the chocolate myself.

Even if the raffle was for something I didn't consume, lets say whiskey, I would still buy a ticket.

Wannabe got it right 2 posts in. The woman is a twat.

It is a lovely idea and don't let the twat spoil it for you.

Anyway, MN has done you a favour. Everytime you see her you will mentally call her The Twat and you can snigger to yourself in a childish manner.

Ignore her, the joyless cah.

She sounds completely charmless and full of her own self importance - is she boycotting everything chocolate related at Easter I wonder?

Her poor child.

lolol at 'joyless cah'