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In this age of government cutbacks and budgetary restraint, more and more schools are setting up separate fundraising foundations or turning to professional fundraisers to help fill the gap. Is this the right approach for schools to be taking? Are there other solutions to the growing problem of underfunding in the public education system?
E-mail us your thoughts today at help@charityvillage.com.You speak of an ideal, one from which, it is understandable, we do not want to part. However, when the results of our democratic process is a government that places a lower and lower priority on public education, parents who want to see what is best happen for their children and school boards who are working hard to attract and retain students, third party funding becomes a necessity, as is the case for hospitals. It is also important understand that equity does not mean quality. Fundraising might be the means of raising the quality of education for everybody.
-- Anne Marie Downey, Downey Norris & Associates Inc., Edmonton AB
Say "no" to fundraising for elementary, junior and senior high schools in Canada.
Education is a fundamental right that every child in Canada ought to expect. The quality of education ought to be the same regardless of the neighbourhood and fund raising capability of parents. Canada's strength has always been the belief that we are an equalitarian society, a community that does not favour one group over another. Let's keep it that way.
The imposition or encouragement of schools and school councils to raise money to support children's education is counterproductive to our way of life.
-- Roger Richard Breault, MCS, CFRE, President, Fund Raising Consultants of Alberta
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