For the last 12 years -- which, not coincidentally, is the amount of time that I've had a child enrolled in public school -- I've subjected myself to all kinds of headaches.
There's the homework headache. The chaperoning-the-field-trip headache. The minimum days headache. And so forth.
But none of these compares to the headache I get from school fundraisers.
I know, I know, they are a fact of life where education is concerned. If we want our kids to have sports, band, dance, drama, art or science camp, or in other words we want to give them headache treatment then funds must be raised. Not to mention any extracurricular activities our kids might have, such as soccer, baseball, Scouts, karate, gymnastics and the like. They need money, too. It's the never-ending story.
I currently have three fundraisers to deal with.