Open Note To Local Organizations

Can we please stop demeaning our teenagers by having them wash cars in parking lots and stand on the street medians waving posters to entice me to give to their cause?

Listen, if your trip or event or equipment needs funding, it should be self-supporting. In other words, parents, pony up. Or kids, get a job and pony up. Or school district, budget for it and pony up.

Or design a fundraiser that allows all the above to pony up. Like hopping cars at Sonic. Or put on a show using their talents. Or set up a series of meetings with local business big-wigs, make a presentation and let them pony up. Or even let them sell coupon books. Send letters to those who might align with your cause. Sell flowers in the spring time. All of those are service-driven and don't demean the kids promoting the fundraiser. Whatever. There's a lot of ways to skin that cat.

But why in the world do was ask teenagers to stand on the street waving posters to bring me to a car wash that will only result in a poorly washed car? I'd rather just hand you five bucks than see teenagers encouraged to do what I've never seen a parent do.

Just letting you know.