Hi all, thank you in advance for your answers.
Any parents in the Long Beach Unified School district are aware of the recent budget cuts.
I recently found out that Camp Hi-Hill will now cost $300 per child if they are NOT on the free meal program, whereas those children who receive free meals get to go for $100.
My question is this: if I organize fundraisers at my child's school to raise money for camp hi-hill, do I have the right to stipulate that it is to go to relieve the families that have to pay $300? MY GOAL is to make it so that it is $100 per child NO MATTER WHAT.
The free-meal children have always been able to go for a reduced rate: last year, they went for $40, when the non-free meal kids went for $85. THAT was do-able. But to raise and triple the reduced rate? Can any one truly afford that?
So again, do I have the right to stipulate exactly how the proceeds are spent if I am the one organizing the fundraiser(s) ?
Sincerely,
a mother who doesn't want to have to take a second out on the house to send my last child to a LBUSD tradition!