To think that independant schools should not fundraise when the kids ahve so much more to start with?

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So far this term we have been asked to buy wildly expensive Chritmas cards designed by our children, contribute a jar to the Christmas fayre, take in bags of stuff to be sold by a psudo charity and collect Morrisons/Sainsbury's whetever vouchers and send in a donation towards the swimming pool refurbishment.

The parents association is always organising something. Now I don;t mind the 2nd hand uniform shop as that helps parents out who may struggle to afford the uniform but I always take my supermarket voucehrs in to another local primary school.

AIBU?

So this has nothing to do with the educational facility that you work for needing a new pool and your not understanding the reasoning why they shouldn't be able to fundraise for it?

This is simply about your sending you children to independent school secretly and feeling put out by them fundraising (amongst themselves mainly) to purchase things for the school generally?

No lol.

The dc's school needs a pool refurb. We as parents were asked to contribute. The builders I work for received the tender documents today!!!

I would never dream of fundraising at the educational activity I work for at weekends. we are a private organisation, the parents pay, we provide all that is required.

I don't think you're bonkers and I don't think you're being unreasonable either. I personally think PTA fundraising is a bit OTT at ds's school (state primary) so I think I would feel even more pee'ed off if I had to pay fees as well.
I suppose the point people are making is that no-one forces you to give money / donations and plenty of parents don't so why let it annoy you.

I'm sure you dc enjoy the pool.
Put some money in or don't.

I'm sure the fundraising won't actually go toward the pool refurb anyway but rather toward a pot of money that the school holds.
It's easier to shake parents down for a pool that for other children's burseries...this is a fact and oft used by schools for leverage for more "worthy" causes likely to see hands dig deeply in pockets