Utterly Meaningless

This practice amazed me when we got back to America: “Hey, guys! I’ve got a great idea! Let’s send our kids out door to door!”

I should have remembered my own experience of peddling Scout cookies door to door — and back then we carried cartons with us. At the time, it didn’t seem odd, but what do kids know?

After not having experienced children-at-the-door for years, it is unsettling. The new wrinkle is no kids at the door, but cyber-invitations to contribute.

Did you catch in #1 there were homeschoolers doing a fund raiser?
And you thought you were off the hook. Unless it was for HSLDA. 😉

School caught fundraisitis along with the whole culture; not being in school doesn’t help much. It’s the middle-class American’s reflex for every possible occasion, our way of expressing ourselves and relating to each other, of being neighborly, a team player at work, politically active, academically supportive, fighting crime and disease and social ills, you name it. Shopping, eating out, watching tv, weddings, funerals and holidays, weekend sports — fundraising is part of it ALL now, never out of sight or mind. Seems it’s the hot new graduate degree even–

You betcha! When folks ask me about reasons to homeschool, “No fundraisers!” is near the top of my list.