one of the biggest fundraisers the firefighters do around her is a boot drive.........yep, they stand in front of the station right in the road and hold out their boots for drivers to donate into.
Firefighters are different.
But PennDOT outlawed boot drives on any state-owned road, which is most of them. Didn’t want to get sued if some kid got run over.
firefighters do that here too, collecting for Jerry’s kids, and that’s fine. That is not some little kid who wants to do an activity. His parents should pay the dang fees, that’s what we have always done. Let me tell you how it galls me when Falls Church HS band and chorus comes door to door with their hand out. we pay private school tuition and TAXES which pay for public school and all of our kids activity fees, and these kids are asking me to help them go to EUROPE? i am sorry, that frosts me. Kids need to SELL something, or perform a service for pay/donation, not just stand there with their dang hand out. we are not talking underprivileged kids either, these are white suburban kids.