At our pto openhouse / pizza dinner, we raised $1000.00 selling pizza dinner, last year's yearbook, last years school t-shirts, and pto drive.(we got 100% of our items needed from donations)Our first time to turn a profit.
So here is the ? what do we do with all this extra $$$$$. Here was our idea, lets buy books to put in the center of the table at lunch and on all the buss for the kids to read. Are hope is that it will give the kids something to do after eating and on the ride to and from school, and we hope it will reduce the amount of kids that are getting in trouble because "there board" and "Their is nothing to do", maby our reading score might ever inprove.
so... now we have the $$, we have the idea... has any one tryed this? And how did you pull it off? Did you buy new books and trade the new books for old books with the school? How do we stop the kids from just taking the books? I do not want to spend alot of $$ on books and they get stolen or torn up?
I think it is a cool idea, I just hope it works out.