A Texas Middle school's unique approach to fundraising has gone viral, thanks to a mom's Facebook post.
Dee Wise Heinz posted the picture, which has been shared more than 175,000 times.
She told ABC News her 12-year-old daughter brought the letter home Tuesday, her second day as a seventh-grade student at the Dallas-area school.
“My first thought was, ‘A fundraiser already?’” Heinz, a mother of three, told ABC News. “But after reading it, my husband and I got such a chuckle out of it and we thought it was so refreshing.”
The letter asks parents to donate money instead of participating in the usual school fundraisers.
The options are: $15 instead of baking cupcakes, $25 instead of selling wrapping paper, $50 instead of participating in a fun run, $75 instead of attending fancy balls or $100 to "forget my name."
Heinz said she believes fundraisers serve a “valuable purpose,” but just thought the letter was a fresh and funny approach to raising money for schools.
“I don’t want to diminish the value of fundraisers, but time is a valuable resource also, so I appreciated having the option,” she told ABC News. “With three kids, there’s never just one fundraiser and they’re never just that simple, so it does take a lot more time than you realize.”
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