Student Forced to Write Fundraising Letter to Grandparents for a Grade, Maliciously Complies by Writing to Grandma’s Cemetery

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    Plant - "I looked up the cemetery where my favorite grandmother is buried and wrote that address down." SCHULTHEIS WALTER *9.5.1913 +14.1.1986 MAGDA 22.3.1921 +29.5.2003 Dörte Schlüter #3151363 +20.1.2016 Hjeruh Ryszard Domanski 16.10.1927 +2611986
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    Font - Write down my grandparent's address? Will do! SOC So my school does a lot of fundraising, which is annoying considering what they're paid in tuition. As one of their fundraisers, they had us drag our grandparents into it. FOR A GRADE, we had to write a letter to our grandparents telling them how much we loved [school] and how great it would be if they could donate.
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    Font - Ooook. Way overstretching the boundaries here. First off, 3 out of 4 of my grandparents were dead (at the time), and the other was completely insane with no idea how to handle money. Not gonna send a letter to her.
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    Font - However, it was mandatory to do this. I'm sure I could have wrote that I had no viable grandparents to write to, but I was pissed. So I looked up the cemetery where my favorite grandmother is buried and wrote that address down. I also included a note that said "love you! Hope you're doing well over there!" Vague but true. Turned it in, got a 100.
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    Font - I don't think they ever found out. My only regret is that now that poor cemetery gets a newsletter from my school every month.
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    Font - vacuousintent 2 days ago . Wow. That's rather unethical of your school. If you ever have to take an ethics class, you could write an essay about it. Bonus points for getting it published in the school newspaper (if it has one). 3.0k Reply Share
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    Font - Piggypogdog +2. 1 day ago School is not ethical enough to have an ethics class 475 Reply Share
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    Font - phdoofus 1 day ago edited 1 day ago My college was already pestering my parents for donations when I was an undergraduate. Not more than a few months later when I had just started grad school, they started pinging me and I just kind of laughed at the poor student hired to make these kinds of calls and asked 'Do you have any idea how much grad students make?'. "Well, no, but maybe we can put you down for $1000?" (this was 1985 so you do the math on how much laughing that caused). I kept ge
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    Font - Your current endowment fund: $7.5 billion (and this was in the mid-80s) My financial aid package: $0 My pleasure in sending you absolutely nothing: priceless Some of you old may remember the the old Mastercard ads
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    Font - I also had the pleasure once of sharing a ride with one of the VP's of financial aid at one point. They point blank asked me 'out of curiosity' how much aid I'd received as an undergrad. When I told them absolutely nothing they were shocked. And I said 'And that's why I don't donate'. I'd get the old argument about 'well you know your tuition doesn't really cover the cost of your education' and I replied 'well, you have an entire top 3 university full of very smart people including a worl
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    Font - Dysan27 2 days ago To make your point more clear on the address you should have added the row and plot of your grand parents grave. Reply Share 169
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    Font - CoderJoel 2 days ago I'm gonna look up cemetery addresses the next time some random website insist I make an account with a physical address. Thanks for the idea. 143 Reply Share
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    Font - nakedwithoutmyhoodie. 2 days ago My only regret is that now that poor cemetery gets a newsletter from my school every month. Yep, I guarantee they do. I get all sorts of mail from the college my kids go to, including the quarterly alumni magazine. Have no idea why I get THAT, seeing as I'm most definitely not an alumnus of that college. Maybe if they stopped mailing that stuff to the wrong people, they wouldn't have to ask for money every year 130 Reply Share
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    Font - DarthKiwiChris 2 days ago I would mention it to local newspaper and get photos from that cemetery 131 Reply Share
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    Font - K Bruxcat 2 days ago What a marketing-weasel move. Nice counter move from you.
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    Font - Outlander56 1 day ago . I recall a classmate of mine that had to provide his parents address. So he gave them the plot number at Arlington Cemetery where his father was buried.
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    Font - beccabootie 2 days ago The assumption that grandparents exist for a child or are healthy or are loved or are decent or included in that child's life is breathtaking, as well as the gobsmacking ignorance of using them as tools for fundraising.

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