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  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Meanwhile US high school sports literally deputize the students as door to door candy bar salesmen to get funding.

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If we did good at those, we had a big event in the gym where the top sellers got to go in one of those wind tunnel money machines.

      Looking back, it is very easy to understand why I believe that “death to amerika” cannot come soon enough

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Look up "school fundraiser" on YouTube and just revel in the 50 ads at the top of the page. I wonder if the massive popularity of MLM scams can be directly attributed to these slave labor programs indoctrinating an entire generation with wealth gospel bullshit at a young age.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Did you play a little ice cream truck jingle while announcing that you've got room temperature hams?

      • Rem [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Its genuinely depressing to type this. We were assigned a box of shitty off brand chocolate bars, with like 50 of them inside. You're supposed to sell them for a dollar each or something like that, and any you don't sell by a certain date, you have to buy. This is what we have instead of tax funded education.

        • elguwopismo [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Fuck I had the off-brand candy bars too. I think I tried to do it for 1 year, then the other 3 my grandparents just paid for the box or whatever the minimum was.

          Then there were also the car washes.

          • Rem [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I always just dipped on the day they handed out the choco after I got tricked the first time

        • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Literally why? We had business management/enterprise modules where they made you set up a small business (e.g. bake sale) just to prove you could do it but why is sports making you sell stuff?

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          any you don’t sell by a certain date, you have to buy

          First I've heard of that shit, god damn