Claiming that they’re exhausted and humiliated, many students are trying to switch out of WJ’s leadership class after several failed fundraising attempts this past month. They didn’t get off on the right foot after the first event, and the online donation website had a major flaw.
“The website that was supposed to collect the donations crashed several times, and people got viruses on their computers and phones,” senior Stefan Lehman said.
After further investigation into the website’s functioning, it was discovered that everyone who had attempted to donate the money to charity received a copy of Tai Lopez’s book, 67 Steps to Find Your Good Life.
“I thought I was giving money to charity, but I open up my emails and I see this sketchy guy bragging about his lamborghinis and telling me to find mentors in my life,” senior Justin Alde said.
The next fundraiser was a unique one, but one that likely won’t be repeated. Leadership decided that in the madcow spirit, students could go and milk cows on a farm. For every gallon of milk, their sponsors would donate 10 dollars.
“Apparently someone forgot to ask the farmer if the students could milk the cows,” SGA president Abe Kim said. Unbenounced to the students, the cows were ill.
“Thirty-two kids got mad cow disease. Thirty-two. I didn’t even know mad cow disease was still a thing. Talk about school spirit,” Kim said.
After that incident, the SGA decided to take on a more traditional approach to fundraising, asking the varsity football team to carry around the water jugs that have become so synonymous with Pennies for Patients.
“We thought it might be a good idea to encourage people to donate if we had some physically imposing people walk around with the jugs,” Principal Jennifer Baker said.
“It might have worked if our football team were physically imposing.”
At the end of the month, it didn’t really matter how many times the SGA and leadership failed to think of creative fundraisers – the little money they got still went to a great cause. What was that cause you might ask?
“Well we decided on the World Wildlife Fund, specifically the fruitbat division,” Baker said. “Some Nigerian princes even offered to chip in! I don’t know what stake they have in our school or fruit bats, but I guess they think it’s a cause worth fighting for.