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Is there a particular socioeconomic class that sells the most for school fundraisers, like selling chocolate bunnies, wrapping paper, candy bars, etc?
Particular race? Economic level?
My feeling is that selling goods to raise money for schools is something that is more likely to be done by the lower income classes than by upper income classes. Wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if this is the case.
I think it depends on personality more than income level.
I'm a middle class white-collar professional, and in my office I constantly see order forms for GS cookies, Holiday candy, wrapping paper, etc., not to mention the raffle tickets. I've been on the selling end and the buying end. I'm also once again putting together a foursome from work to golf at our booster club's tournament.
The Hillary Clintons and Donald Trumps of the world probably simply buy out of the fundraisers, but lower to upper-middle probably participate.
Easy answer. Middle class people no matter their race. They're your volunteer base. A much larger percentage of poorer families as well as the wealthy families for some reason don't get involved for various reasons.
School fundraisers are raising funds for something. Usually an extracurricular of some sort. The lower socioeconomic class usually either has their thing funded by the government, or they just aren't going to do it. The upper socioeconomic class usually just pays a fee to participate. The middle class doesn't get the funds from the government, but wants to do whatever it is, but doesn't always have quite enough to not mind just paying the fee, so they raise funds. With a fundraiser.
When I go to the mall, the kiosks are staffed with young and aggressive sales people, usually of some non-US background. They sell like their lives depend on it, and they probably do. No wonder most of us vanilla-beans are being replaced. Got to get after it to be successful.
Middle class and upwards, although there are outliers. I actually belong to an education group that has studied this issue. The school also has to have a gung-ho head of the fundraising.
Is there a particular socioeconomic class that sells the most for school fundraisers, like selling chocolate bunnies, wrapping paper, candy bars, etc?
Particular race? Economic level?
My feeling is that selling goods to raise money for schools is something that is more likely to be done by the lower income classes than by upper income classes. Wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if this is the case.
I've actually studied this, and I can use my own family for a reference.
Here's the best answer - white, lower middle, working class and "middle middle"(not one notch up) class, upwardly mobile types who want their kids to go to college but probably did not attend themselves.
These are the same people, usually woman, who organize gift giving for the teacher on holidays and the rest of the year, rather that allowing each student's family to decide what, if anything, the teacher deserves.
They are hierarchical in nature. This is not "bad" or "good". It is just a quality of this social class. They show unearned respect for teachers. The position confers the respect. Not the quality of performance.
When my children were in elementary school and attempted to sell candy, greeting cards, Tee shirts, gift wrap to my father and is wife (upper middle class professionals) they just bought the stuff, wrote our a check and didn't want the goods. So they either made a donation to the school or told us to pick out what we wanted.
I'm glad those days are over.
But they are not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
There are different personality traits that are found in certain classes of people. I think the question was a good one.
Forest Hill public school is in the middle of the most wealthy community in Toronto. The average cost of a house is north of 5 million CDN dollars......Last year, that elementary school raised $455. PER CHILD, for extra curricular activities.
By comparison, Parkdale Public School in the poorest neighbour hood in west Toronto... raised $11, PER CHILD.
I've actually studied this, and I can use my own family for a reference.
Here's the best answer - white, lower middle, working class and "middle middle"(not one notch up) class, upwardly mobile types who want their kids to go to college but probably did not attend themselves.
These are the same people, usually woman, who organize gift giving for the teacher on holidays and the rest of the year, rather that allowing each student's family to decide what, if anything, the teacher deserves.
They are hierarchical in nature. This is not "bad" or "good". It is just a quality of this social class. They show unearned respect for teachers. The position confers the respect. Not the quality of performance.
When my children were in elementary school and attempted to sell candy, greeting cards, Tee shirts, gift wrap to my father and is wife (upper middle class professionals) they just bought the stuff, wrote our a check and didn't want the goods. So they either made a donation to the school or told us to pick out what we wanted.
I'm glad those days are over.
But they are not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
There are different personality traits that are found in certain classes of people. I think the question was a good one.
I have to disagree with you. In my district, which is large (~30K students now) the schools in the highest SES areas do the best at fundraising, with the caveats I stated earlier.
Last edited by Katarina Witt; 03-16-2016 at 03:24 PM..
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