I think I may have lived too long.  I remember joking about having
bake-sales to help the schools my children attended a while back, but I
never thought it would really come to pass, alas!

Lala

>DONATIONS HELP PAY TEACHER SALARIES
>With money tight and times tough, parents and teachers across the nation
>are holding fund-raisers to pay teachers' salaries and benefits.  Students
>at Belinder Elementary School in a Kansas City suburb brought in loose
>change and the proceeds from lemonade stands earlier this year to help pay
>the salaries of a nurse, counselor and foreign language teacher. Parents
>and others in the community added to the donations, raising about $78,000
>in two weeks. The school was one of six in the district that raised a
>total of $236,000 to help pay for positions that otherwise would have been
>reduced to part-time or eliminated as the district addressed a budget
>shortfall of more than $6 million for the 2002-03 academic year. Such
>fund-raisers have occurred elsewhere around the nation, and are expected
>to increase as state legislatures tackle tight budgets. Two-thirds of
>states report falling revenues and more than half expect deficits in their
>fiscal 2003 budgets, according to the National Conference of State
>Legislatures.
>http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/12/26/broke.schools.ap/index.html

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Oralia Preble-Niemi, Ph.D.
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Foreign Languages & Literatures
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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