Comments on: Better World Wednesday: Boosterthon http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2011/12/28/better-world-wednesday-boosterthon/ Book reviews, author interviews, industry news and more from the online bookstore with a soul. Fri, 17 May 2013 01:34:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Olivia http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2011/12/28/better-world-wednesday-boosterthon/comment-page-1/#comment-7174 Olivia Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:15:39 +0000 http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/?p=7807#comment-7174 The Boosterthon was fun at the beginning but is now becoming a pain. They come into your room for 10 minutes during your lesson, pumps the kids up, distracts other classes by the cheering, and hands off prizes for the kids. After they leave, I am spent dealing with active kids who can't settle down after that. I understand that they are there to help out the schools, but I am sure there are better options than this. With our state's testing coming up in 2 weeks, it's distracting the teachers and the students. It's really all about the prizes for the kids and for them to hassle their parents for it. I am over it. The Boosterthon was fun at the beginning but is now becoming a pain. They come into your room for 10 minutes during your lesson, pumps the kids up, distracts other classes by the cheering, and hands off prizes for the kids. After they leave, I am spent dealing with active kids who can’t settle down after that.
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I understand that they are there to help out the schools, but I am sure there are better options than this. With our state’s testing coming up in 2 weeks, it’s distracting the teachers and the students. It’s really all about the prizes for the kids and for them to hassle their parents for it. I am over it.

]]> By: E http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2011/12/28/better-world-wednesday-boosterthon/comment-page-1/#comment-7039 E Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:08 +0000 http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/?p=7807#comment-7039 You might want to Google Boosterthon and see what others are saying about it...also..I have not confirmed this but many people are stating that they charge $2000 and take 48% of the pledges the school brings in. The prizes are crappy and they basically disrupt classes for 9 days. You might want to Google Boosterthon and see what others are saying about it…also..I have not confirmed this but many people are stating that they charge $2000 and take 48% of the pledges the school brings in. The prizes are crappy and they basically disrupt classes for 9 days.

]]> By: natasha http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2011/12/28/better-world-wednesday-boosterthon/comment-page-1/#comment-6753 natasha Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:11:15 +0000 http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/?p=7807#comment-6753 Jatalo is a company that sells backpacks and bracelets to provide textbooks for children in developing countries. For every bracelet they sell, they donate a textbook to a child in need, and for ever backpack they sell, they donate an entire year's worth of textbooks to a child in need. Jatalo's founder visited India and saw how many children both needed and wanted an education that they could not afford. He created a line of ethnically-inspired backpacks and a one-for-one donation model to raise money for those children's textbooks. By communicating directly with rural schools, Jatalo has been able to directly meet the needs of eager schoolchildren. Texas's channel 33 did a piece on Jatalo here - http://www.the33tv.com/about/station/newsteam/kdaf-north-texas-teenager-creates-company-to-help-children-in-india-20110930,0,6134333.story - as well. Jatalo is a company that sells backpacks and bracelets to provide textbooks for children in developing countries. For every bracelet they sell, they donate a textbook to a child in need, and for ever backpack they sell, they donate an entire year’s worth of textbooks to a child in need.

Jatalo’s founder visited India and saw how many children both needed and wanted an education that they could not afford. He created a line of ethnically-inspired backpacks and a one-for-one donation model to raise money for those children’s textbooks. By communicating directly with rural schools, Jatalo has been able to directly meet the needs of eager schoolchildren.

Texas’s channel 33 did a piece on Jatalo here – http://www.the33tv.com/about/station/newsteam/kdaf-north-texas-teenager-creates-company-to-help-children-in-india-20110930,0,6134333.story – as well.

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